noun
definition
The lowest part of an entablature; rests on the capitals of the columns.
definition
The moldings (or other elements) framing a door, window or other rectangular opening.
Examples of architrave in a Sentence
These differ from Caryatids, which bear the architrave on their heads.
The Romans used to place the image of the goddess, crowned with flowers on festive occasions, in a sort of shrine in the centre of the architrave of the stable.
The architrave is threefold and bears a frieze with lion-heads, on which rest a moulding and cornice.
Here a pilaster forming the back of the figure receives a Corinthian capital, upon which the architrave rests; and the figures merely brace up the pilaster.
The architrave of the larger, known as Porta di Civita, measures about 17 ft.
The main object was to clear the Doric temple of Athena, built about 470 B.C. This temple is remarkable for a sculptured architrave which took the place of the ordinary frieze.
The doorway is a 4 centered arch in chamfered and carved architrave.
These include high skirtings, picture rail, decorative architrave and ceiling rose.
Cutting the boards around door architrave can be fiddly.
My joiner was crestfallen after Spitalfields aficionado Dan Cruickshank pointed out a small error in the window architrave.
Above this squared architrave were laid the joists of the ceiling, and those of the floor upon the layer of ashes.
Welsh tradition does not know him; early Italian records, which have preserved the names of Arthur and Gawain, have no reference to Lancelot; among the group of Arthurian knights figured on the architrave of the north doorway of Modena cathedral (a work of the 12th century) he finds no place; the real cause for his apparently sudden and triumphant rise to popularity is extremely difficult to determine.
The architrave is flat, and there is a space over it, serving both to admit light and to relieve the pressure on it from above, and the size decreases slightly from the bottom to the top. Within the doorway is, as a rule, a niche on the right, and a staircase ascending in the thickness of the wall to the left; in front is another similar doorway leading to the chamber in the interior, which is circular, and about 15 ft.
He was certainly known in Italy at a very early date; Professor Rajna has found the names of Arthur and Gawain in charters of the early 12th century, the bearers of those names being then grown to manhood; and Gawain is figured in the architrave of the north doorway of Modena cathedral, a 12thcentury building.