Balustrade
A balustrade is an object made up of several balusters,[1] usually around a balcony or other high place, usually to make sure that nobody falls off of it.[2]
Balustrade Media
Illustration of various examples of balusters, in A Handbook of Ornament, by Franz S. Meyer
The term derives from the swelling form of the half-open flower of Punica granatum, in Italian balaustra
Stone balusters in the Basilica of San Zeno, Verona (constructed 967–1398 AD)
Ornate cast iron filigree balustrades in the Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles, California
A vasiform balustrade crowns Michelangelo's Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Campidoglio (Rome)
Balusters influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement in a 1905 row of houses in Etchingham Park Road (Finchley, London)
Ornate upper bronze balustrade, lower vasiform stone balustrade, and bronze central rail supported by decorative bronze metalwork at Brown University's Orwig Music Library
Balustrade of turned wood balusters of Quema Ancestral House a typical bahay na bato
Stone balustrade at Schloss Veitshöchheim near Würzburg, Germany
References
- ↑ "What is a Baluster? (with picture)". wiseGEEK. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
- ↑ "balustrade". The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
