Thursday, 23 December 2010

Volute

   
A volute is the spiral curve on an Ionic capital; spiral; ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a centre with an increasing distance from the centre.
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1 comment:

  1. Librarian23 December 2010 at 16:54

    I knew this one in the context of gables on a house. Voluted gables were very popular during the Rennaissance.

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