Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Frieze
FREEZE
Architecture1. The middle section of the Classic entablature, located above the architrave and below the cornice; a panel below the upper molding or cornice of a wall
2. Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building
Found in Classical Greek and Roman architecture and derivatives, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Classical Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassicism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire
Furniture: Frieze
Examples from Buffalo:
- Illustration above: City Hall
- Fireplace - Knox House
- Exterior entablature - Hamburg Grange Building, Hamburg, N.Y.
- Interior entablature - Miller House
- Exterior entablature - Germain House designed by J. L. Silsbee
- Exterior entablature - Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum
- Interior entablature - Schoellkopf-Vom Berge Manor
- Exterior - Buffalo Industrial Bank
- Fireplace - Albert J. Wright House / Beau Fleuve
Other examples:
- Exterior entablature - Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
- Exterior - Pedlar People Sheetmetal Building Material Catalog: Sheet Zinc Frieze, Canada
- Furniture: French Renaissance trestle table - Fontainebleau Palace, France
