Fleuron (architecture)

Template:Short description A fleuron is a flower-shaped ornament, and in architecture may have a number of meanings:

1. It is a collective noun for the ornamental termination at the ridge of a roof, such as a crop, finial or épi.
2. It is also a form of stylised Late Gothic decoration in the form of a four-leafed square, often seen on crockets and cavetto mouldings.
3. It can be the ornament in the middle of each concave face of a Corinthian abacus.
4. Finally, it can be a form of anthemion, a Greek floral ornament.

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• Ancient Greek fleuron as an anthemion (Greek word for flower), c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".–325 BC, marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
  Ancient Greek fleuron as an anthemion (Greek word for flower), c. Template:Trim–325 BC, marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
• Ancient Greek Corinthian capital with a fleuron on the abacus, from the tholos at Epidaurus, said to have been designed by Polyclitus the Younger, c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".350 BC, stone, Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus, Greece[3]
  Ancient Greek Corinthian capital with a fleuron on the abacus, from the tholos at Epidaurus, said to have been designed by Polyclitus the Younger, c.350 BC, stone, Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus, Greece
• Ancient Greek fleuron as an anthemion on a mirror with cover, bronze, c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".340 BC, bronze, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
  Ancient Greek fleuron as an anthemion on a mirror with cover, bronze, c.340 BC, bronze, National Archaeological Museum, Athens
• Roman Corinthian capital with a fleuron on the abacus of the Baths at Ostia, Ostia Antica, near modern Ostia, southwest of Rome, unknown architect, unknown date
  Roman Corinthian capital with a fleuron on the abacus of the Baths at Ostia, Ostia Antica, near modern Ostia, southwest of Rome, unknown architect, unknown date
• Roman Corinthian capital of the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli, Italy, with an oversized fleuron on the abacus, probably a stylized hibiscus blossom with spiral pistil, unknown architect, 1st century BC
  Roman Corinthian capital of the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli, Italy, with an oversized fleuron on the abacus, probably a stylized hibiscus blossom with spiral pistil, unknown architect, 1st century BC
• Gothic fleuron with a square section of a tier of four leaves or petals developing around a prominent central bud, early 13th century, illustration from the Dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
  Gothic fleuron with a square section of a tier of four leaves or petals developing around a prominent central bud, early 13th century, illustration from the Dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
• Gothic fleuron with two rays of foliage, mid-13th century, illustration from the Dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century
  Gothic fleuron with two rays of foliage, mid-13th century, illustration from the Dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century
• Gothic fleuron, 13th century, illustration from the Dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century
  Gothic fleuron, 13th century, illustration from the Dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century
• Gothic fleuron with stripped of foliage, 15th century, illustration from the Dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century
  Gothic fleuron with stripped of foliage, 15th century, illustration from the Dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century
• Gothic fleurons on a crown of the Virgin, c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".1390-1395, terracotta with paint, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  Gothic fleurons on a crown of the Virgin, c.1390-1395, terracotta with paint, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Gothic fleuron on the Brussels Town Hall, Belgium, by Jean Bornoy, Jacob van Thienen or Jan van Ruysbroeck, 1401-1455
  Gothic fleuron on the Brussels Town Hall, Belgium, by Jean Bornoy, Jacob van Thienen or Jan van Ruysbroeck, 1401-1455
• Gothic fleurons in the Chapelle de Condat, Libourne, unknown architect, probably the 15th century and restored in the 1860s
  Gothic fleurons in the Chapelle de Condat, Libourne, unknown architect, probably the 15th century and restored in the 1860s
• Neoclassical fleuron on the capital of a Corinthian pilaster of the Fontaines du Théâtre-Français, Paris, designed by Gabriel Davioud and sculpted by François Théophile Murgey,[4] 1867-1874
  Neoclassical fleuron on the capital of a Corinthian pilaster of the Fontaines du Théâtre-Français, Paris, designed by Gabriel Davioud and sculpted by François Théophile Murgey, 1867-1874
• Gothic Revival fleurons from the finials of Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany, by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".1880
  Gothic Revival fleurons from the finials of Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany, by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, c.1880
• Gothic Revival reinterpretation of a fleuron on the College of Saint Teresa-Ganduxer, Barcelona, Spain, by Antoni Gaudí i Cornet and Joan Baptista Pons i Trabal, 1887-1889
  Gothic Revival reinterpretation of a fleuron on the College of Saint Teresa-Ganduxer, Barcelona, Spain, by Antoni Gaudí i Cornet and Joan Baptista Pons i Trabal, 1887-1889
• Oversized Neoclassical fleurons on the Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest, Romania, inspired by those of the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, by Paul Louis Albert Galeron, 1888
  Oversized Neoclassical fleurons on the Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest, Romania, inspired by those of the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, by Paul Louis Albert Galeron, 1888
• Gothic Revival fleuron in the George Severeanu Museum, Bucharest, unknown architect, c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".1900
  Gothic Revival fleuron in the George Severeanu Museum, Bucharest, unknown architect, c.1900
• Gothic Revival fleurons on the Grave of the Alexandru Costescu Family in the Bellu Cemetery, Bucharest, unknown architect, c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".1900
  Gothic Revival fleurons on the Grave of the Alexandru Costescu Family in the Bellu Cemetery, Bucharest, unknown architect, c.1900
• Typography fleurons
  Typography fleurons

See also

• Flamboyant