Doric frieze

Door frame from the Wolphard-Kakas house in Kolozsvár 2
The architects of the Italian Renaissance (Bramante) began to use the frieze of the antique Doric order at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The Doric frieze consists of alternating triglyphs and metopes. A triglyph is a small plate with three vertical grooves, while the metope is simply the rectangular space between two triglyphs.