5-647: Termini can refer to: Termini (architecture) , human heads and busts that continue down to square, tapering, pillar-like forms Termini Station (Rome) , a main line railway station in Rome Termini (Rome Metro) , an underground railway station in Rome Termini Imerese , a town in Sicily Termini, a frazione of Massa Lubrense , Campania, Italy See also [ edit ] Terminus (disambiguation) ,
10-403: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Termini (architecture) In Classical architecture and in art a term or terminal figure ( pl. : terms or termini ) is a human head and bust that continues down as a square tapering pillar-like form. It is usually distinguished from a herm , which has a head and shoulders only, but
15-426: The edges of woodland, Pan and fauns and Bacchantes especially, and they may be draped with garlands of fruit and flowers. Term figures were a particularly characteristic feature of the 16th-century style in furniture and carved interior decoration that is called Antwerp Mannerism . Ornament prints , such as a set of 20 School of Fontainebleau etchings from the 1540s usually given to Jean Mignon , disseminated
20-720: The singular of termini (although places named Termini in Italian come from the Latin plural thermae , "baths") Terminal (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Termini . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Termini&oldid=1162359879 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
25-652: The two words may be used rather loosely and interchangeably. The god Terminus was the Etruscan and Roman deity of boundaries, and classical sources say that boundary markers often took the form of a half-figure of the god on a pillar, though ancient survivals in this form are extremely rare. In the architecture and the painted architectural decoration of the European Renaissance and the succeeding Classical styles , term figures are quite common. Often they represent minor deities associated with fields and vineyards and
#725274