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Obscure Renaissance Architectural Lexicon
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  • 1. Five-pointed arrangement motif, named for its planting arrangement, applied to pavement patterns.
  • 2. Lost semi-enclosed window balcony style favored in Renaissance Italy.
  • 4. A rare French Renaissance vault style, named after a defensive garment.
  • 7. Arcaded gallery above nave aisles, once common but now scarcely intact.
  • 9. Five-part timber joint technique, crucial but overlooked in lost Renaissance carpentry.
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  • 3. Grotesque face motif used to scare away evil, now mostly vanished.
  • 5. A minute bracket molding that once crowned cornices with delicate shadows.
  • 6. Stepped tower form whose Renaissance reinterpretation faded into obscurity.
  • 8. A forgotten Renaissance molding that ‘stirs’ the eye with intricate relief.
  • 10. An ornament mimicking stylized palm leaves, often lost in Renaissance friezes.
  • 11. Cushion-like architectural element supporting an entablature, subtle and seldom used.

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