Blown gable
Split gable or split gable , also broken gable , is a technical term from the history of architecture and art. It describes a gable whose center is not closed, but open. The middle section is apparently destroyed or unfinished; he looks "blown up". This middle part can, however, be decorated with design elements such as vases etc.
history
The blasted gable is primarily associated with Baroque architecture and its facade design, i.e. the 17th and 18th centuries. However, it can already be found in antiquity, for example in the late Hellenism in the rock tombs of Petra, and was also known in Roman architecture .
The motif of the blasted gable is used in European architecture up to 19th century historicism . Often also as an ornamental gable , as a so-called crowning or roofing of windows and doors. With the breakthrough of modern architecture at the beginning of the 20th century, the motif disappeared, but decades later it was occasionally taken up again as a quote in postmodern architecture . A well-known example is Philip Johnson's AT&T Building (1979–1984, now “Sony Building”) in New York .
Furniture art
Like many other motifs from architecture, the blown gable was adopted in the design of furniture and other everyday objects. In particular in historicism furnishings were "crowned" with it.
References and footnotes
- ↑ so in Hans Koepf , Günther Binding : Picture Dictionary of Architecture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 194). 4th, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-19404-X , Lemma explosive gable , and Hans-Joachim Kadatz: Dictionary of Architecture , Leipzig 1988, Lemma explosive gable
- ↑ a b after Hans Koepf, Günther Binding: Pictorial Dictionary of Architecture. 4th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, Lemma Sprengiebel
- ↑ after Hans-Joachim Kadatz: Dictionary of Architecture. Leipzig 1988, Lemma Sprengiebel
- ^ Sentence after Christoph Höcker: Metzler Lexikon antique architecture. Metzler / Poeschel, Stuttgart 2004, Lemma Sprengter Giebel