Human Ornaments .. An Inherited Architectural Element

Document Type : Review Articles

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1 Professor, Faculty of Art, Damanhur University

2 PhD Researcher, Damanhour University

Abstract

The architectural heritage represents a valuable development of human thought through the ages. Preserving this heritage was done by rebuilding, restoring or reusing the demolished buildings in a different way. As well as imitating some inherited architectural forms with minor modifications to suit the modern era. These decorations varied between female and male forms, and they came together in being architectural ornaments complementary to the buildings as columns for balconies or entrances with a purely decorative purpose, not a structural one. These examples appeared in the downtown area of Alexandria. The most prominent of which is a residential building on Alexander the Great Street in Azarita, and another in Sporting, where the architectural ornament was used as a decorative column attached to the wall of balconies or to the facade of buildings.
The study of these forms proved that they are an inherited feature since the Greek era and then continued in the architecture of the Renaissance era, despite the fact that it was not a European invention from that era, but was in fact an inherited element from the ancient classical civilizations in Greece and Italy.
This architectural ornament continued as an inherited feature that appeared in a number of European buildings, whether public or private, whether men or women. All of them bear the roof of the buildings or decorate the facades in a distinctive way, which made them an ornament inherited through the ages.

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