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A modillion is an ornate bracket, more horizontal in shape and less imposing than a corbel. They are often seen underneath a cornice which it helps to support. Modillions are more elaborate than
Abbaye Ste Foy à Conques (25) - Frises et corbeaux du chevet.jpg, Modillions carved with animal heads in the Abbaye Ste Foy in Conques (
A modillion is an ornate bracket, more horizontal in shape and less imposing than a corbel. They are often seen underneath a cornice which it helps to support. Modillions are more elaborate than dentil
A dentil (from Lat. ''dens'', a tooth) is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice. Dentils are found in ancient Greek and Roman architecture, and also in later styles such as Neoclassical, Federal, Georgian R ...
s (literally translated as small teeth). All three are selectively used as adjectival historic past participles (''corbelled, modillioned, dentillated'') as to what co-supports or simply adorns any high structure of a building, such as a terrace of a roof (flat area of a roof), parapet, pediment/entablature, balcony, cornice band or roof cornice. Modillions occur classically under a Corinthian Corinthian or Corinthians may refer to:
*Several Pauline epistles, books of the New Testament of the Bible:
**First Epistle to the Corinthians
**Second Epistle to the Corinthians
**Third Epistle to the Corinthians (Orthodox)
*A demonym relating to ...
or a Composite
Composite or compositing may refer to:
Materials
* Composite material, a material that is made from several different substances
** Metal matrix composite, composed of metal and other parts
** Cermet, a composite of ceramic and metallic materials
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cornice, but may support any type of eaves cornice. They may be carved or plain.
See also
*Glossary of architecture
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20130809 dublin036.JPG, Trinity College, in Dublin.
Disegno di Modiglione (mensola, chiave di volta) a doppia voluta, dal campanile di Monteforte d'Alpone (Verona ITALY), Neoclassicismo, by Paolo Villa for ctg Lessinia.svg, Modillion double spiral, Neoclassicism (from Classic Art), from keystone of Campanile of Monteforte d'Alpone (Verona ITALY)
20101111 liege241 forgeur.JPG, La rue Forgeur, Liège, Belgium
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Église de Dampierre-Modillon C02-20120428.jpg, Église de Dampierre, south side of the part of choir from the 13th century.
Hasselt - Woning Dokter Willemsstraat 24.jpg, A house in Hasselt, Belgium.
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