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Know Your House: Interior Door Parts and Styles
Learn all the possibilities for your doors, and you may never default to the standard six-panel again
Italianate Style
Italianate style - Italianate buildings came because the idea of rural Italy was romanticized by Americans and by America's early European-educated architects. The Italianate style, along with the Gothic Revival, began in England as part of the Picturesque movement, a reaction to the formal classical ideals in art and architecture that had been fashionable for about two hundred years.
Pediments: Classical Elements Of Ancient Architecture
Variations In Architectural Design: Pediments Of Distinction Really terrific article with lots of pictures about pediments
European Architecture
French Renaissance Ornament Examples A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method by Sir Banister Fletcher