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Seeing as details such as guttae are meant to look as water drops, then I like reed. So are they phragmitae? So is the detail a "reeded flute", or "beaded flute".
Flout your knowledge, baby.
Leland
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Subject: [BP] Fluted columns
Eric:
> My son is writing a paper on Brunelleschi (Renaissance architect) and wants to know what the little outward bump is called within the valley of the flute at the lower portion of some fluted columns. I know it adds proportion and rustication, but can anyone tell me what these things are called?
I call that a "reed", the Romans and Greeks before them were using this
detail in column motifs well before Brunelleschi. It imitates a reed
that grows in the swamp, which were used in bundles as building posts.
http://historichomeworks.com/hhw/columns/columns.htm
John
www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
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