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Definition of Frontispieces

Frontispiece
Frontispiece Fron"tis*piece, n. [F. frontispice, LL. frontispicium beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: cf. It. frontispizio. See Front and Spy.] The part which first meets the eye; as: (a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.] (b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

Meaning of Frontispieces from wikipedia

- Look up frontispiece in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Frontispiece may refer to: Frontispiece (books), a decorative illustration facing a book's title...
- "frontispiece" and "pediment" interchangeably in reference to both large frontispieces decorating the main entrances, as well as smaller frontispieces...
- Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on book frontispieces...
- its four cardinal directions as a decorative flourish. Later, these frontispieces came to be decorated or embellished with designs such as the creeper...
- Kuchi-e (口絵) (lit. 'mouth pictures') are frontispieces of books, especially woodblock printed frontispieces for ****anese romance novels and literary magazines...
- in the Musée de Cluny in Paris. This is also how he appears in the frontispieces of early printed P****over Haggadot and occasionally in church sculptures...
- were not illustrated, but were "illuminated" with decorations of the frontispieces or headings. The tradition of illustrated m****cripts started with the...
- Authorship and Authority: John Milton, William Marshall, and the Two Frontispieces of Poems 1645, Milton Quarterly - Volume 33, Number 4, December 1999...
- Gitta, Nils Büttner, and Claus Zittel, eds. 2021. Gateways to the Book: Frontispieces and Title Pages in Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill. Fowler, Alastair...
- comedy drama film directed by Radley Metzger and based on a French story, Frontispiece, by Pierre Serbie, that is similar to Mark Twain's novel The Prince and...