Classical vs Ovolo - What's the difference?
classical | ovolo |
Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
* Arbuthnot
Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
*
(music) Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
(informal, music) Describing serious music (rather than pop, jazz, blues etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
* Macaulay
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
* Macaulay
(physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
(architecture) A classical convex moulding carved with an (egg-and-dart) ornament.
* 2001 , Adolfo J. DomÃnguez, Carmen Sánchez, Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (editor), Greek Pottery from the Iberian Peninsula: Archaic and Classical Periods ,
* 2005 , Robert Chitham, The Classical Orders Of Architecture , 2nd Edition,
* 2008 , Roy Underhill, Eleanor Underhill, The Woodwright?s Guide: Working Wood With Wedge and Edge ,
As an adjective classical
is of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.As a noun ovolo is
(architecture) a classical convex moulding carved with an (egg-and-dart) ornament.classical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject.
- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
- Classical , provincial, and national synods.
Synonyms
* classicDerived terms
* Classical Greece * Classical Greek * classical history * Classical Latin * classical musicExternal links
* * * English autological termsovolo
English
(wikipedia ovolo)Alternative forms
* ovuloNoun
(en noun)page 196,
- Decoration inside: six linked palmettes with 9 petals around a band of ovolos' between incised lines, surrounded by 13 palmettes linked around a band of ' ovolos .
page 76,
- Each of the pairs is connected by a kind of web, and each pair stands clear of the ovolo' and ''astragal'' mouldings which form a kind of extension to the column shaft and complete the essential construction of the capital. ' Ovolo and astragal are enriched with egg and dart and bead and reel respectively, the setting out related to a fluting pattern of twenty-four flutes to the column shaft circumference, as shown on the plan.
page 112,
- Using a template or a good eye to guide the paring chisel, slice off the corners of the tenon ovolos at 45 degrees.