Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
capitel vegetal
English translation:
waterleaf (capital)
Added to glossary by
Paul Lambert
Dec 11, 2006 19:35
17 yrs ago
Spanish term
capitel vegetal
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Architecture
Más adentro, se encuentra un patio central cuadrangular con una destacable galería gótica de arcos ojivales con capiteles vegetales de piedra numulítica...
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Proposed translations
(English)
2 +1 | waterleaf (capital) | Noni Gilbert Riley |
3 | foliage capital | Fabio Descalzi |
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Dec 12, 2006 00:00: Fabio Descalzi changed "Field" from "Tech/Engineering" to "Art/Literary"
Proposed translations
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waterleaf (capital)
one of a number of types of capitals (tops of columns), see Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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foliage capital
He aquí algunos ejemplos:
http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/id/cl/kilne/index.htm
N jamb: Cone-shaped corbel (damaged). Stiff-leaf foliage capital (damaged).
Centre mullion: Cone-shaped corbel (well-preserved). Stiff-leaf foliage capital (damaged).
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42661
CHURCH
The church of ST. MARY (fn. 28) was built by the Knights Templars c. 1290 (....) Internally the reveals are square, each with an attached round shaft to the inner edge, with a foliage capital (also a small human head corbel in the reveal) carrying the rear-arch, moulded differently to the others: next the jamb on the wall-face is also a half-round shaft with a foliage capital carrying the hood-mould. The external hood-mould has stops carved as curling monsters...
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-920X(1971)10:2<71:RSIA...
In his commentary on the foliage capital inventoried by him as No. ... The second foliage capital (d) and a capital showing a pair of winged horses in a ...
http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/id/cl/kilne/index.htm
N jamb: Cone-shaped corbel (damaged). Stiff-leaf foliage capital (damaged).
Centre mullion: Cone-shaped corbel (well-preserved). Stiff-leaf foliage capital (damaged).
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42661
CHURCH
The church of ST. MARY (fn. 28) was built by the Knights Templars c. 1290 (....) Internally the reveals are square, each with an attached round shaft to the inner edge, with a foliage capital (also a small human head corbel in the reveal) carrying the rear-arch, moulded differently to the others: next the jamb on the wall-face is also a half-round shaft with a foliage capital carrying the hood-mould. The external hood-mould has stops carved as curling monsters...
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0016-920X(1971)10:2<71:RSIA...
In his commentary on the foliage capital inventoried by him as No. ... The second foliage capital (d) and a capital showing a pair of winged horses in a ...
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