{{Short description|Ornate supporting bracket in architecture}} [[File:Morgan, Leith, and Cook Bldg-2.jpg|thumb|Modillions under the cornice of the Morgan, Leith, and Cook Building in the East Portland Grand Avenue Historic District, Portland, Oregon]]
In architecture, a '''modillion''' is an ornate bracket, more horizontal in shape and less imposing than a corbel. They are often seen underneath a cornice which helps to support them. Modillions are more elaborate than dentils (literally translated as small teeth).<ref>{{cite web|title=Illustrated Glossary of Classical Architecture|url=http://www.doric-column.com/glossary_classical_architecture.html|publisher=doric-column.com|access-date=15 August 2016}}</ref> All three are selectively used as adjectival historic past participles (''corbelled'', ''modillioned'', ''dentillated'') as to what co-supports or simply adorns any high structure of a building, such as a terrace of a roof (a flat area of a roof), parapet, pediment/entablature, balcony, cornice band or roof cornice. Modillions occur classically under a Corinthian or a Composite cornice but may support any type of eaves cornice.<ref>{{Citation |editor-last= Bradley|editor-first= Simon | year = 2010| title = Pevsner's Architectural Glossary |publication-place = New Haven and London| publisher = Yale University Press | page = 83| isbn = 978-0-300-16721-4 }}</ref> They may be carved or plain.
==See also== * Glossary of architecture
==Gallery== <gallery> Abbaye Ste Foy à Conques (25) - Frises et corbeaux du chevet.jpg|Modillions carved with animal heads in the Abbaye Ste Foy in Conques (France). 20130809 dublin036.JPG|Trinity College, in Dublin. Disegno di Modiglione (mensola, chiave di volta) a doppia voluta, dal campanile di Monteforte d'Alpone (Verona ITALY), Neoclassicismo, by Paolo Villa for ctg Lessinia.svg|Modillion double spiral, Neoclassicism (from Classic Art), from keystone of Campanile of Monteforte d'Alpone (Verona ITALY) 20101111 liege241 forgeur.JPG|La rue Forgeur, Liège, Belgium. Église de Dampierre-Modillon C02-20120428.jpg|Église de Dampierre, south side of the part of choir from the 13th century. Hasselt - Woning Dokter Willemsstraat 24.jpg|A house in Hasselt, Belgium. </gallery>
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