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Modillion vs Mutules - What's the difference?

modillion | mutules |

As nouns the difference between modillion and mutules

is that modillion is (architecture) a decoratively carved supporting block atop a column while mutules is .

modillion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) A decoratively carved supporting block atop a column.
  • *1922: The familiar classic console or modillion is an example: although in general contour it is well adapted to its function as a supporting bracket, embedded in, and projecting from a wall, yet the scroll-like ornament with which its sides are embellished gives it the appearance of not entering the wall at all, but of being stuck against it in some miraculous manner. — Claude Fayette Bragdon in The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture'', Essay II, ''Unity and Polarity

    • mutules

    English

    Noun

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