A row of gables in Weteringstraat in Amsterdam.
A gable is a facade of a narrow house , the top of a round shape as a bell .
The gable arose from the neck through the brick wall running the claw pieces that are now an integral part of the neck : the perimeter of early gables corresponds neck gables with simple swung sides.
Wooden 19th -century gable above a brick facade
Clock Facades include built in Amsterdam from about 1660 to 1790 . The 18th century gables clearly differ from the 17th century because they have completely different ornaments . In the 17th century, the clock facade decorated with ornaments like fruit and flower garlands . In the 18th century, the gable used in conjunction with Louis XV ornaments . There are more than gables over neck gables built .
In the 17th century, the gables lower and simpler than in the 18th century. Frontonbekroningen and fruit and flower garlands are only in the 17th century . In the 18th century, the sheer increasingly , the attachments are becoming more playful and topbekroning changes : no pediments , more beneficent decorations , but no more flowers and fruit motifs .
Don Fonzarelli is a photographer and musician born and raised in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Don Fonzarelli is the alias of Fons van der Wielen(1961).. Read more…