The capitals of each triglyph are to measure one sixth of a module. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
They told him, never did such an absurdity occur in classic architecture as a triglyph on a corner!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Those who would make the metopes all alike, make the outermost intercolumniations narrower by half the width of a triglyph. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The width of the triglyph should be divided into six parts, and five of these marked off in the middle by means of the rule, and two half parts at the right and left. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Greeks solved it by reducing the width of the end intercolumniation, but later critics disliked this, and solved it by removing the end triglyph from the angle and placing it axial over the end column. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Now from the same temple no trace of architrave, triglyph or cornice has been found; a fact that is true of no other building in Olympia and seems to make it certain that here wood never was replaced by stone. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
The difficulty was, that if the triglyph was placed on the angle of the building (the practice of the Greeks) and the next triglyph was placed over the axis of the column, the metope (or panel) between these two triglyphs would be larger than the metopes between the triglyphs axial over the other columns. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Corinthian columns, composed either of the Doric proportions or according to the Ionic usages; for the Corinthian order never had any scheme peculiar to itself for its cornices or other ornaments, but may have mutules in the coronae and guttae on the architraves according to the triglyph system of the Doric style, or, according to Ionic practices, it may be arranged with a frieze adorned with sculptures and accompanied with dentils and coronae. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
MUTULES (best seen in the frontispiece), one over each triglyph and each metope. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
A triglyph is placed over the center of each column and over the center of each intercolumniation. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
There is a triglyph over each column and one over each intercolumniation, or two in rare instances where the columns are widely spaced. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Under each triglyph there is worked upon the face of the architrave, directly below the taenia, a REGULA, shaped like a small cleat, and to the under surface of this regula is attached a row of six cylindrical or conical GUTTAE. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
In any case, you have a result somewhat like the upper figure, Plate XI., in which I show you the most elementary indication of form possible, by cutting the outline of the typical archaic Greek head with an incision like that of a Greek triglyph, only not so precise in edge or slope, as it is to be modified afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
The Greek could stay in his triglyph furrow, and be at peace; but the work of the Gothic heart is fretwork still, and it can neither rest in, nor from, its labour, but must pass on, sleeplessly, until its love of change shall be pacified for ever in the change that must come alike on them that wake and them that sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
For the fitting together of the stones is different from the fluting of the column, and these are both different from the making of the temple; and the making of the temple is complete (for it lacks nothing with a view to the end proposed), but the making of the base or of the triglyph is incomplete; for each is the making of only a part. From Wordnik.com. [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference
In the earlier peripteral temples, as at Selinus, the triglyph-frieze is retained around the cella-wall under the ceiling of the colonnade, where it has no functional significance, as a survival from times antedating the adoption of the colonnade, when the tradition of a wooden roof-construction showing externally had not yet been forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Pompey, or, as some prefer, Diocletian, and others Alexander Severus, had that fine pillar ferried over from the quarries of Lycian Xanthus; at least, this is a good idea, seeing that near that place still lie three or four other columns of like gigantic dimensions, unfinished, and believed to have been intended to support the triglyph of some new temple. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
But all the subordinate Movements are incomplete in the parts of the time, and are different in kind from the whole movement and from one another (I mean, for instance, that the fitting the stones together is a Movement different from that of fluting the column, and both again from the construction of the Temple as a whole: but this last is complete as lacking nothing to the result proposed; whereas that of the basement, or of the triglyph, is incomplete, because each is a Movement of a part merely). From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
And Doric triglyph!. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
2. triglyph. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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