Egg-and-dart

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Egg-and-dart

Egg-and-dart is an ornamental

Ornament (architecture)

In architecture, ornament is a decorative detail used to embellish parts of a building or interior furnishing. Ornament can be carved from stone, wood or precious metals, formed with plaster or clay, or impressed onto a surface as applied ornament....
device often carved in wood, stone, or plaster quarter-round ovolo

Ovolo

Ovolo in architecture, is a wikt:convex molding known also as the echinus, which in Classical architecture was invariably wood carving with the egg-and-dart ornament....
mouldings, consisting of an egg-shaped object alternating with an element shaped like an arrow

Arrow

An arrow is a pointed projectile that is shot with a bow . It predates recorded history and is common to most cultures....
, anchor

Anchor

An anchor is an object, often made out of metal, that is used to attach a ship to the bottom of a body of water at a specific point. There are two primary classes of anchors?temporary and permanent....
or dart

Dart

Dart may refer to:* Dart , a concave deltoid* Dart , a type of missile thrown or shot* SSM-A-23 Dart, wire-guided missile anti-tank guided missile...
. Egg-and-dart enrichment of the ovolo molding

Ovolo

Ovolo in architecture, is a wikt:convex molding known also as the echinus, which in Classical architecture was invariably wood carving with the egg-and-dart ornament....
of the Ionic capital

Ionic order

The Ionic order column forms one of the Classical order of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric order and the Corinthian order....
is found in Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
architecture at the Erechtheion and was used by the Romans.

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Egg-and-dart is an ornamental

Ornament (architecture)

Ovolo

Arrow

An arrow is a pointed projectile that is shot with a bow . It predates recorded history and is common to most cultures....
, anchor

Anchor

Dart

Ovolo

Ovolo in architecture, is a wikt:convex molding known also as the echinus, which in Classical architecture was invariably wood carving with the egg-and-dart ornament....
of the Ionic capital

Ionic order

The Ionic order column forms one of the Classical order of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric order and the Corinthian order....
is found in Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

This design motif

Motif (art)

File:Ajanta Entrance cave 17.jpgFile:TajFlowerCloseUp.jpgIn art, a motif is a repeated idea, pattern, image, or theme. Paisley are referred to as motifs....
has been common in the classical architecture

Classical architecture

Classical architecture is the set of building styles and techniques of Classical Greece, as used in ancient Greece, the Hellenistic period, and the Roman empire....
of Europe since the Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
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In popular culture

Don Henley of the rock group The Eagles in "Waiting in the Weeds", on their 2007 release, Long Road Out Of Eden, makes reference to "the tide's eternal tune, the phases of the moon, the chambers of the heart, the egg-and-dart." The allusion is apparently in keeping with the song's theme of life's ongoing and dependable cycles, i.e., repeating patterns.