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Ovolo
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(adapted from Ital. uovolo, diminutive of uovo, an egg; other foreign equivalents are Fr. ove, echine, quart de rond; Lat. echinus), in architecture, a convex moulding known also as the echinus, which in Classic architecture was invariably carved with the egg and tongue. In Roman and Italian work the moulding is called by workmen a quarter round. It must not be confounded with the echinus of the Greek Doric capital, as this was of a more varied form and of much larger dimensions than the ovolo, which was only a subordinate moulding.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ovolo'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/o/ovolo.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ovolo'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/o/ovolo.html. 1910.
