Modillion
Architectural element
A modillion is an ornate bracket, more horizontal in shape and less imposing than a corbel. They are often seen underneath a cornice which it helps to support. Modillions are more elaborate than dentils (literally translated as small teeth).[1] All three are selectively used as adjectival historic past participles (corbelled, modillioned, dentillated) as to what co-supports or simply adorns any high structure of a building, such as a terrace of a roof (flat area of a roof), parapet, pediment/entablature, balcony, cornice band or roof cornice. Modillions occur classically under a Corinthian or a Composite cornice, but may support any type of eaves cornice.[2] They may be carved or plain.
See also
- Glossary of architecture
Gallery
- Modillions carved with animal heads in the Abbaye Ste Foy in Conques (France).
- Trinity College, in Dublin.
- Modillion double spiral, Neoclassicism (from Classic Art), from keystone of Campanile of Monteforte d'Alpone (Verona ITALY)
- La rue Forgeur, Liège, Belgium.
- Église de Dampierre, south side of the part of choir from the 13th century.
- A house in Hasselt, Belgium.
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