RIBA Architecture Image Library

Two half-elevations of arched openings in complex decorative architecture RIBA125267

(left) Half-elevation of a rusticated opening with a detail of a console drawn within the opening; (right) half-elevation of an entrance (in a screen?) with a semi-circular opening over the doorway RIBA125268

(left) Half-elevation of a nniche in an upper storey; (right) half-elevation of a square-headed entrance with three super-imposed pediments RIBA125269

Four doorways: (1 & 2) profile and front view in half-elevation of an entrance with a balustrade above; (3) half-elevation of a doorway flanked by Doric half-columns or pilasters, a broken and curved pediment above enclosed in another, triangular pediment; (4) half-elevation of a doorway with consoles and a triangular pediment RIBA125270

(left) Half-elevation of a gateway with double, rusticated attached Ionic columns flanking the square opening with broken, curved pediment framing an elaborate device containing a blank cartouche with the date 1612 beneath the cartouche; (right) half-elevation of the tabernacle over the entrance door in Michelangelo's Medici Chapel (1524) in San Lorenzo, Florence, with profile at left and plan beneath RIBA125271

(left) Half-elevation of a doorway with broken pediment supported on large console, large seated figure on pediment; (right) half-elevation of doorway with triangular pediment supported by a panel which surrounds part of the upper doorcase RIBA125272

(left) Half-elevation of an arched entrance, flanking pilaster and figure in niche at lower left; (right) half-elevation of an arched entrance surmounted by a frieze and a tablet with a broken curved pediment supported on foliage consoles RIBA125273

(left) Half-elevation of an arched entrance with double pediments above; (centre) half-elevation of an entrance flanked by Corinthian columns (or pilasters) with frieze and cornice surmounted by broken curved pediment containing a tablet with a triangular pediment above that; (right) Half-elevation of a doorway with details of the console and door mouldings RIBA125274

(left) Half-elevation of a doorway flanked by a rusticated Doric pilaster with curved pediment; (centre) half-elevation of a doorway with triangular pediment; (right) half-elevation front view and two profiles of Michelangelo's door from the vestibule to the reading room in the Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana), Florence RIBA125275

Brancepeth Castle, County Durham: the old gateway RIBA125276

Chiesa de Santa Maria de Carignano de Sigri Sauli (Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta di Carignano), piazza Carignano, Genoa: elevation of the facade RIBA125277

(left) Half-elevation of an arched entrance with broken pediment; (right) half-elevation of a doorway with triangular pediment RIBA125278

(left) Half-elevation of square-headed entrance with brick surround and stone voussoirs, flanked by a herm supporting a broken curved pediment which contains and is in part surmounted by a superstructure with a tablet; (right) half-elevation of a square-headed entrance above a flight of six steps flanked by a niche with a tablet over, a curved and scrolled pediment, within the pediment a tablet with a superstructure RIBA125279

(left) Half-elevation of a square-headed entrance above a single step, a female figure in profile above a large curved console, broken triangular pediment with standing figure with shield and spear; (right) half-elevation of a square-headed entrance above two steps (possibly intended as a variant of the previous design), double Doric pilasters with niche between, broken triangular pediment with standing cupid, above and set back is a curved pedim RIBA125664

(left) Elevation of part of an entrance screen with half-elevation of square-headed entrance with semi-circular element over, half-elevation of plain arched opening and, below, a rusticated dormer window; (right) half-elevation of an arched entrance with giant keystone, rusticated Doric columns, balustrade above, and, below, a part-plan RIBA125665

(left) Half-elevation of an arched entrance with rusticated piers and narrow facetted voussoirs and broken triangular pediment; (right) half-elevation of an entrance and profile of the same at right RIBA125666

(left) Half-elevation of an arched, rusticated gateway of an extremely elaborate design with heavy curved and broken pediment with a crouching lion and a seated female figure holding a cornucopia; (right) half-elevation of an arched gateway with facetted rustication with above a shallow broken pediment within which is a rusticated dormer or tablet with a broken curved pediment above that RIBA125667

St Etienne-du-Mont, Paris: east side doorway to the rood screen with alternative grille designs to right and left RIBA125668

St Etienne-du-Mont, Paris: west side doorway to the rood screen with alternative grille designs to right and left RIBA125669

St Etienne-du-Mont, Paris: section of side doorway design to the rood screen as seen in RIBA125669, with plan of left-hand side of doorway RIBA125670

Elevation of an arched entrance gateway with niches in the piers at either side, with a tablet above centre with a triangular pediment and, at either side above the arch, reversed segmental pediments with reclining figures RIBA125671

Two half-designs for cartouches with strapwork scrolls, foliage etc. RIBA125672

Elevation of an arched entrance gateway with a complicated decorative scheme RIBA125673

Elevation of a city (?) gateway with a large arched central entrance and very narrow doors either side with very elongated voussoirs above them and a triangular pediment RIBA125674