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ID: 300266649 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300266649			Record Type: concept

kokoshniks (gables) (gables (architectural elements), <gables and gable components>, ... Components (hierarchy name))

Note: Pointed arches located at the culmination of a wall in Russian church architecture. They differ from "zakomaras" in having a a purely decorative rather than a structural purpose.

Terms:

kokoshniks (gables) (preferred,NA,V,English-P,D,U,PN)	............	the term refers to their likeness to a ladies' headdress of the same name
kokoshnik (gables) (NA,V,English,AD,U,SN)
kokoshnik (gables) (Dutch,AD,U,U)
kokoshnik gables (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
kokošnik (NA,V,English,UF,U,U)
kokošnik (gables) (Russian (transliterated),UF,U,N)
kokosjniks (geveltoppen) (C,U,Dutch,D,U,U)
kokošniks (C,U,Dutch,UF,U,U)
kokoshniki (gables) (NA,V,Russian (transliterated),UF,U,N)

Facet/Hierarchy Code: V.PJ

Hierarchical Position:

Objects Facet

.... Components (hierarchy name) (G)

........ components (objects parts) (G)

............ <components by specific context> (G)

................ architectural elements (G)

.................... <structural elements and components for structural elements> (G)

........................ structural elements (G)

............................ enclosing structural elements (G)

................................ <walls and wall components> (G)

.................................... wall components (G)

........................................ <wall components by form or function> (G)

............................................ <gables and gable components> (G)

................................................ gables (architectural elements) (G)

.................................................... kokoshniks (gables) (G)

Additional Notes:

Dutch ..... Puntbogen boven aan muren van Russische kerken. In tegenstelling tot zakomora's zijn kokosjniks zuiver decoratief: ze hebben geen structurele functie.

Related concepts:

distinguished from ....	zakomaries (gables)
..................................	(gables (architectural elements), <gables and gable components>, ... Components (hierarchy name)) [300266650]

Sources and Contributors:

kokoshnik (gables)............	[RKD, AAT-Ned, Suzzallo-UW, VP]
...................................	AAT-Ned (1994-)
...................................	Azarov, Russian-English Encyclopedic Dictionary of Arts (2005) 656
...................................	Opolovnikov and Opolovnikova, Wooden Architecture of Russia (1989) 252

kokoshnik gables............	[VP]
.............................	Perrin, Byzantine Afterglow (1964)

kokoshniki (gables)............	[Suzzallo-UW, VP]
...................................	Azarov, Russian-English Encyclopedic Dictionary of Arts (2005) v. 1, 656
...................................	Brumfield, History of Russian Architecture (2004) 86, 280, 524
...................................	Voyce, National Elements in Russian Architecture, Society of Architectural Historians (1957) v. 16, no. 2, p. 10, "kokoshnik" singular

kokoshniks (gables)............	[Suzzallo-UW, VP Preferred]
...................................	Bryner, 'Runner' in Pskov Church Ornamentation (1973)
...................................	Perrin, Byzantine Afterglow (1964)
...................................	Rachkovsky, Rural Churches of the Tomsk District, Proceedings KORUS (2003) 187
...................................	Voyce, National Elements in Russian Architecture, Society of Architectural Historians (1957)

kokosjniks (geveltoppen)............	[RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred, VP]
.........................................	AAT-Ned (1994-)

kokošnik ()............	[Suzzallo-UW, VP]
.......................	Azarov, Russian-English Encyclopedic Dictionary of Arts (2005) 656

kokošniks............	[RKD, AAT-Ned]
....................	AAT-Ned (1994-)


Subject: .....	[RKD, AAT-Ned, Suzzallo-UW, VP]
............	Brumfield, History of Russian Architecture (2004) p. 280 "a decorative or false zakomara, sometimes with pointed top, like the women's headdress of the same name, most characterstic of Russian architecture 15th-18th c.; p. 524 an illustration of kokoshniki


Note:
English	..........	[Suzzallo-UW, VP]
	..........	Azarov, Russian-English Encyclopedic Dictionary of Arts (2005) 656
Dutch	..........	[RKD, AAT-Ned]
	..........	AAT-Ned (1994-)

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