Glossary
• cloister a covered passage around an open court, with a wall on the outer side and columns or arches on the inner side; especially within a convent or attached to a cathedral;
• fresco a picture painted in water-colour on a wall or ceiling when the plaster is still wet; the combination of the colour and lime is very stable and resistant;
• console a stone support projecting from a wall holding a balcony, a cornice or a part of a wall;
• cantilever a special type of console which reminds one of a little stairway turned upside down, used in the Gothic and Renaissance period
• sgraffito decoration of façades; two layers of plaster were applied on a wall; ornaments were scratched in the upper layer which used to be white while the lower one was usually coloured;
• stucco white or coloured material prepared from plaster or marble powder from which various interior and exterior decorations were moulded;
• helix decoration shaped like a scroll or a spiral that was as
early as in the ancient times and then again in the Renaissance and Baroque periods;
• presbytery part of a church near the altar; where the priest stands during the mass;
Tabor – a Hussite town, History of Tabor –a look into the mirror of time, Sights of Tabor, A small geographic atlas, Do not miss when in Tabor, Interesting places in the surroundings, In the footsteps of the Hussites, Glossary, Index