Term (architecture)
In
herm, which has a head and shoulders only,[1]
but the two words may be used rather loosely and interchangeably.
The god Terminus was the Etruscan and Roman deity of boundaries, and classical sources say that boundary markers often took the form of a half-figure of the god on a pillar, though ancient survivals in this form are extremely rare.
In the architecture and the painted architectural decoration of the European
Bacchantes
especially, and they may be draped with garlands of fruit and flowers.
Term figures were a particularly characteristic feature of the 16th-century style in furniture and carved interior decoration that is called
Mannerist
creations, many of the forms dip in and out of architectural and anatomical shapes.
References
- ^ Lucie-Smith, 213
- Cyril M. Harris (1977). Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture. Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0486132110; p. 528
- ISBN 0500203652
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Terms.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 642.
- Pair of terminal statuettes (The Metropolitan Museum)
- Terminus / Term / Terminal figure (Buffalo Architecture Index)