Frieze
ca.1884 (made)
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Cast of a Doric frieze, plaster, with the ox-skull, or bucranium motif. The cast reproduces the frieze of triglyphs and metopes that surmounts the Doric order on the north front of the Château at Ecouen, built by Jean Bullant in the 1550s.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Plaster |
| Brief description | Cast of a Doric frieze, plaster, France, about 1884 |
| Physical description | Cast of a Doric frieze, plaster, with the ox-skull, or bucranium motif. The cast reproduces the frieze of triglyphs and metopes that surmounts the Doric order on the north front of the Château at Ecouen, built by Jean Bullant in the 1550s. |
| Object history | The cast reproduces the frieze of triglyphs and metopes that surmounts the Doric order on the north front of the Château at Ecouen, built by Jean Bullant in the 1550s. The motif of the ox-skull, or bucranium, recalls ritualistic sacrifice of the ancient world when Doric was first used on temples. |
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| Accession number | REPRO.1884-803 |
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| Record created | June 29, 2005 |
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