Glossary entry

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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Dec 12, 2006 00:00: Fabio Descalzi changed "Field" from "Tech/Engineering" to "Art/Literary"

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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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agree Maria Garcia : water leaf capital, yes!
3 hrs
Thanks María!
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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 ...
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