Entablature

DEFINITION

See Frieze/Entablature<br><br>In architecture, the upper section of a classical building. Resting on the columns, it consists first of the architrave, the frieze, and the cornice on top.Examples: Entablatures as they figure into a diagram of the Doric order and a diagram of the Ionic order.Also see abacus, capital, classical orders, Corinthian, Doric, echinus, Greek art, Ionic, metope, orders, Roman art, shaft, stylobate, and triglyph.