Qwika Toolbar for IE and Firefox users!

Home > English

Searching 21,964,380 articles in 1,158 wikis.
Beta release. Any comments please contact us
Press release (Feb 17): New search engine helps bridge the language gap in Wikipedia
Press release (Apr 4): Qwika search engine now indexes 1158 wikis in 12 languages

Search wikis:

Entasis
Entasis schema of a Corinthian column In architecture, entasis is a design technique used to counteract ... appear to have a slight inward curve. Entasis is the inclusion of a slight outward ... Literature Thomä, Walter: Die Schwellung der Säule (Entasis) bei den Architekturtheoretikern bis in das XVIII ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entasis - 2k - Cached - Similar pages

Entasis   (translated from German)
Entasis Those Entasis ( griech. entasis = strain) is the furthest point of an ... The organization of the columns and their Entasis like also the Kurvatur thus also another ... basis. Literature Thomae, Walter: Swelling the column (Entasis) at the architectural theorists into the ...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entasis - 2k - Cached (German) - Wikipedia (German) - Similar pages

Talk:Entasis
Talk:Entasis A stub its no more but could ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Entasis - 0k - Cached - Similar pages

Column   (translated from German)
... third of its height the largest extent (Entasis) reaches. This differentiates the column from the round column, which does not exhibit Entasis. The only decoration of the shank is ... upward clearly tapering columns with clear swelling (Entasis) and usually 20 flat, sharply together-pushing ...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Säule - 29k - Cached (German) - Wikipedia (German) - Similar pages

Parthenon   (translated from German)
... ratio of the temple walls and that Entasis the columns." Stylobat marks the highest surface ... underbody, on which the columns touch down, Entasis is easy swelling of the columns, which ...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon - 21k - Cached (German) - Wikipedia (German) - Similar pages

Parthenon
... taper of the naos walls and the entasis of the columns." The stylobate is the ... It curves upwards slightly for optical reasons. Entasis refers to the slight swelling of the ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

Classical order
... bottom than at the top, because its entasis, beginning a third of the way up ... Ionic order is also marked by an entasis, a curved tapering in the column shaft ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_order - 30k - Cached - Similar pages

Culture of the graves of grave   (translated from Spanish)
Culture of the graves of grave This article lacks format adapted to convenciones of style of Wikipedia . Please, edítalo in order to fulfill them. You do not eliminate east warning until you have done it. == Megalítica Architecture == The artistic manifestations that emphasize during the neolithic period, near 3000 years before Christ ...
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura_de_las_sepulturas_de_fosa - 4k - Cached (Spanish) - Wikipedia (Spanish) - Similar pages

Column (architecture)   (translated from Portuguese)
... fast bending of the shaft (thickening) assigned entasis (D in the project), where the diameter ... the monocylindrical column); Column galbada (with convexity, entasis); Column monocylindrical or monolithic (composed for an ...
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluna_(arquitetura) - 21k - Cached (Portuguese) - Wikipedia (Portuguese) - Similar pages

Ito Chuta   (translated from Japanese)
... relation with the Greek of that pillar entasis is pointed out. In addition "construction evolution ...
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊東忠太 - 9k - Cached (Japanese) - Wikipedia (Japanese) - Similar pages

 Page:1 2 3 4 Next >>

Search wikis:


Search: uk de fr ja it nl pt es gr ko zh ru

Try your search on: FactBites (sentence-based)