(n.) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
(n.) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
(n.) A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
(v. t.) To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you think London gets too crowded with events during the Frieze fair, stay away from Miami: this year there were at least 17 art fairs happening simultaneously.
(2) ( eyzies.monuments-nationaux.fr ; 00 33 5530 68600 ) Abri de Cap Blanc: Another must, Cap Blanc is made up of series of bas-reliefs created by artists who took advantage of the topography of the rock wall to sculpt a frieze of horses of startling impact.
(3) The Scream stands alone in our imaginations, but when you relate it to other scenes in the Frieze of Life, its meaning becomes clearer.
(4) Take the 1970 Dodge Challenger he has rebuilt for Frieze, or its 1969 cousin, the Charger, two of which he is working on in the Body Shop.
(5) At this year's Frieze, the quilted, chained shoulderbag was the style of choice in an environment where designer accessories come as standard.
(6) The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze.
(7) Designed by Pericles's master sculptor, Phidias, the marbles were part of a monumental frieze that adorned the Parthenon.
(8) When you look at his classic works in Oslo's National Gallery and the Munch Museum, you can follow them, not as a narrative exactly, but as a spiritual autobiography he called the Frieze of Life.
(9) Meanwhile, one of the fragments of the frieze that remained in Greece , newly mounted in the Acropolis museum, is eroded by pollution and so horribly neglected by that long independent country that it can hardly be recognised.
(10) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian October's Frieze is now firmly marked on fashion's annual calendar , with the art world's style a great tonic after four weeks of front rows eyeing up each other's outfits.
(11) Jennifer Higgie, London editor of contemporary art magazine Frieze , says the ambition of the project, especially during tough economic times, should be applauded.
(12) The Frieze piece notches up several firsts for Prince: it's his first fully working car-as-artwork, and his first public commission for a British audience.
(13) But for the most part the book is a kind of corybantic frieze of all-too-human mankind, its characters parading unforgettably past us, insinuating themselves permanently into our imaginations, populating our mental landscapes.
(14) The hysteria of the Habsburg empire on the verge of breaking up becomes ecstasy in Klimt's Beethoven Frieze, with its savage King Kong monkey-face manifesting the moronic power of irrational forces.
(15) Prince's Frieze installation bears many of the hallmarks of his art over the past three decades.
(16) For nearly 40 years Athens has argued that the sculptures – part of a giant frieze depicting the Panathenaic procession, which adorned the Parthenon until their removal by Lord Elgin, England’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire – should be “reunited” with surviving pieces in Athens in the name of respect for a monument of universal importance.
(17) Viv’s book keeps getting reprinted because she works so hard at it that way,” Lee Brackstone says: she’s recently spoken at the Frieze Art Fair and the ICA, and is lecturing at Goldsmiths College later this month.
(18) Hightlights of the Vézère valley Grotte de Rouffignac: The cavern train carries you past friezes of woolly rhinos, superbly rendered in black, and engravings of mammoths, gouged into soft clay-limestone walls by artists who used their fingers.
(19) A clue can be found in the first issue, from September 1991, of the contemporary art magazine Frieze.
(20) Athens wants nothing else back – including that other pillaged masterpiece, the Bassae frieze, which in high relief depicts the Greeks fighting the Amazons and is also on display at the British Museum, but on account of staff shortages rarely available for viewing.