A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . he capitalproper is a small, thin moulding, the gorge isused to give to the capital a certain height andmass, and it may then be a band of some inchesin width between two groups of mouldings, thewhole forming a necking which is larger thanthe capital itself. GORGERIN. Same as Necking. GORGON. In architectural sculpture, therepresentation of a monster somewhat resemblinga woman with huge mouth and teeth and glar-ing eyes. (See (iorgoneion.) GORGONEION. The representation of agorgons head. In earlier work it
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . he capitalproper is a small, thin moulding, the gorge isused to give to the capital a certain height andmass, and it may then be a band of some inchesin width between two groups of mouldings, thewhole forming a necking which is larger thanthe capital itself. GORGERIN. Same as Necking. GORGON. In architectural sculpture, therepresentation of a monster somewhat resemblinga woman with huge mouth and teeth and glar-ing eyes. (See (iorgoneion.) GORGONEION. The representation of agorgons head. In earlier work it was without268 GOSPEL SIDE serpents; in later work, -n-ith many and muchinvolved and convoluted serpentine liodios sur-rounding the face. It is rejiresented as borneupon the fegis carried by Pallas Athene, andoccurs in Grecian architectural sculptiu-e, es-lici-ially of the earlier work. GOSPEL SIDE. (See Ambo.) GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. A. Thatof the Goths proiierly called. This is notnow tracealjle nor to be identified cxcejjt in Sjiain,where a very early Romanesque may l)e ascribed. Gothic Architecture (Definition A): CapitalsOF Spain before the Mookish Conquest. to the Visigothic kingdom, before the Moorishconcjuest. Even of this, no complete buildingscan be named, but separate capitals and somelarger members are built into Moorish and otherbuildings. (See Bibliography under Spain.) B. That of populations already skilled inbuilding, but brought under Gothic rule. Ofthis, the most important instance remaining isthat of Ravenna: the buildings erected underthe rule of Theodoric (King of the Ostrogothsfrom 475 , King of Italy from 493), andwhich show a peculiar modification of Latin Ar-chitecture (which see; see also Italy, Part V.). C. That which originated in northern centralFrance about the middle of the twelfth century,and which at the close of that centuiy had spread 269 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE over what is now northern Fraiu^e ; while de-tached buildings in England, in nort
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