Restoration · Kristinehamn, Sweden
Capitals, frieze & relief restored
A historic town-house facade: fluted pilasters with figured capitals, a Greek-key frieze and garlands with lion masks — rebuilt by hand where they had fallen away.
Before
The cornice and frieze had lost whole sections down to the brick; capitals were cracked, leaves and scrolls broken off, the lion-mask frieze split and stained.
After
Missing parts modelled again by hand from the surviving pieces: the Greek-key frieze, the capitals with their heads and scrolls, the garlands and lion masks. The whole entablature was then rendered and painted as one surface.
What the elements are called
- Pilastera flat half-column built into the wall, here fluted (vertical grooves)
- Figured capitala Corinthian-type capital with acanthus leaves, volutes (scrolls) and carved female heads
- Greek key (meander)the continuous right-angled band in the frieze
- Festoons with lion masksswags of fruit and flowers tied with ribbons and rosettes, between lion heads
- Cornice with dentilsthe projecting top band with small block-shaped teeth
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