Examples of using Rustication in English and their translations into Slovenian
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Diamond rustication" in Germany.
Various types ofother patterns in masonry surfaces are sometimes called rustication.
Simple smooth-faced rustication in wood at Mount Vernon;
In classical architecture,ashlar wall surfaces were often contrasted with rustication.
Rustication may also be confined to the surrounds of arches, doors or windows, especially at the top.
These include"diamond point" or"diamond rustication" where the face of each stone is a low pyramid facing out.
Rustication is often used to give visual weight to the ground floor in contrast to smooth ashlar above.
Rough finishes on stone are also very common in architecture outside the European tradition,but these too would generally not be called rustication.
Above, the rustication is merely to emphasize the individual blocks, and the faces are all smooth and even.
These facades only used the classical orders in mullions and aedicules,with arched forms in rustication the main relief from the massive flat walls.
In prismatic rustication the blocks are dressed at an angle near each edge, giving a prism-like shape.
Often the Palazzo Medici Riccardi model is followed; the ground floor has heavy rustication with textured faces, while above there is smooth-faced"V" rustication.
The rustication of exposed basement walls of Victorian residences is a late remnant of the Palladian format, clearly expressed as a podium for the main living space for the family.
The technique is still sometimes used in architecture of a broadly Modernist character, especially in city centre streets where it helpsmodern buildings blend with older ones with rustication.
The ground floor has heavy rustication with textured faces, while above there is smooth-faced"V" rustication.
The palazzo has mullioned paired windows(bifore); the radating voussoirs of the arches increase in length as they rise to the keystone, a detail that wasmuch copied for arched windows set in rustication in the Renaissance revival.
This courtyard has heavy-banded channelled rustication that has been widely copied, notably for the Parisian palais of Maria de' Medici, the Luxembourg.
Typically, rustication after 1700 is highly regular, with the front faces of blocks flat even when worked in patterns, as opposed to the real unevenness often seen in the 16th-century examples.
Late 15th-century gateway to the Palacio de Jabalquinto, with small"diamonds" erupting from ashlar at the sides Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara Casa dos Bicos, Lisbon"Diamond rustication" in Germany The appearance of rustication, creating a rough, unfinished stone-like surface, can be worked on a wooden exterior.
A ground floor with rustication, especially in an English mansion such as Kedleston Hall, is sometimes referred to as the"rustic floor", in order to distinguish it from the piano nobile above.
When stone is finished with an external surface like this, rough shapes may be chiselled or drilled into the stone by a technique known as‘vermiculation'(vermiculate rustication or vermicular rustication), originating from the Latin vermiculus which means‘little worm', because the shapes resemble the tracks that worms make in wet mud or sand.
In classical architecture rustication is a range of masonry techniques giving visible surfaces a finish that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared-block masonry surfaces called ashlar.
When the stone is left with a rough external surface, rough shapes may be drilled or chiselled in the somewhat smoothed face in a technique called"vermiculation"(vermiculate rustication or vermicular rustication), so called from the Latin vermiculus meaning"little worm", because the shapes resemble worms, worm-casts or worm tracks in mud or wet sand.
Rustication was used in ancient times, but became especially popular in the revived classical styles of Italian Renaissance architecture and that of subsequent periods, above all in the lower floors of secular buildings.
The sharply pointedstyles have really nothing to do with classical rustication, and are instead a development of styles of raised decoration of masonry that were popular in late Gothic architecture, especially the Iberian Manueline(or Portuguese late Gothic) and its equivalent in Spain, known as Isabelline Gothic.
The rustication and exaggerated size of keystones that were to be so prominent in his later buildings in Mantua are already present on the ground floor, which dispenses with any classical order, but the two upper floors have increasingly shallow orders in pilasters, somewhat in the manner of the Villa Lante.
Also associated with gardens is"cyclopian" rustication, where the blocks are very large and irregular, as though placed by giants, and"rock-work", where surfaces are built up of rough rocks not placed in regular courses at all.
Smooth-faced rustication with the blocks dropping back to the wall at 90°, rather than a"V" chamfer Quoins only, with long and short strips, on a Czech railway station Banded, with"elbows" and very wide joints, Cleveland, Ohio Banded rustication in a wholly modern context, Hattiesburg, Mississippi Various types of other patterns in masonry surfaces are sometimes called rustication.
During the 18th century, following the Palladian revival, rustication was widely used on the ground floors of large buildings, as its contrived appearance of simplicity and solidity contrasted well to the carved ornamental stonework and columns of the floors above:"Rustication became almost obligatory in all 18th- and 19th-century public buildings in Europe and the USA".
