. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ir ancient connection with the sites of castles. Balloon. A round ball or globe placed on a column or pier, by way of crowning it. Thesame name is given to the balls on the tops of cathedrals, as at St. Peters, which is 8feet in diameter, and at St. Pauls in London. Balteus. (Lat. a girdle.) The wide step in theatres and amphitheatres, which affiirdeda passage round them without disturbance to the sitters. No one sat on it; it servedmerely as a land
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. ir ancient connection with the sites of castles. Balloon. A round ball or globe placed on a column or pier, by way of crowning it. Thesame name is given to the balls on the tops of cathedrals, as at St. Peters, which is 8feet in diameter, and at St. Pauls in London. Balteus. (Lat. a girdle.) The wide step in theatres and amphitheatres, which affiirdeda passage round them without disturbance to the sitters. No one sat on it; it servedmerely as a landing-place. In the Greek and Koman theatres, every eighth step was abalteus. Vitruvius gives the rules in the third chapter of his fifth book, for properlysetting it out. The term balteus is also used by Vitruvius to denote the strap which seems to bind upthe coussinet, cushion, or pillow of the Ionic capital. Baluster. A species of small column belonging to a balustrade. See Columella;. Thisterm is also used to denote the lateral part of the volute of the Ionic capital. Vitruviuscalls it pidvinafa, on account of its resemblance to a 1218 GLOSSARY.
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