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Gallery
A long narrow room or corridor that is notable for its scale and decorative treatment. Galleries were popular in medieval architecture as the place where people could congregate in a large building.
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Long gallery is an architectural term given to a long, narrow room, often with a high ceiling. In British architecture, long galleries were popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses.
gallery
A long room, often on an upper floor, for recreation, entertainment or display of artwork.
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Gallery
The second story of an ambulatory or aisle. Also a long passage or room.
Gallery - In church architecture, an upper storey over an aisle, opening on the nave. Also called a tribune and often, wrongly, a triforium.
Gallery of Kings: Statues of kings in sequence, located either under baldachins (ornamental canopies) or encircling the base of the towers of the west façade of Gothic cathedrals.
Gallery
A balcony or mezzanine overlooking the main interior space of a building. In a church the gallery is an upper storey directly above the aisle, with arches looking down into the nave.
Gallery - Long passage or room.
Garderobe - A small latrine or toilet either built into the thickness of the wall or projected out from it; ; projects from the wall as a small, rectangular bartizan ...
gallery: any upper storey of a building with a passage open to the interior or exterior; more specifically, in larger churches, the middle storey of a three storey elevation, between the arcade and the clerestorey.
Gallery. A long room or corridor, usually on the upper floor and extending the full length of a building. In church architecture, an open upper storey over an aisle.
gallery or tribune: An upper story over the aisle which opens onto the nave or choir. It corresponds in length and width to the dimensions of the aisle below it.
Gallery
The ornamental metal or wood railing around the edge of a table or desk.
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Gallery
the second story of a church, placed over the side aisles and below the clerestory.
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Gallery with half barrel vaults thickened by ribs. Thrust of nave vault is transmitted through ribs to external wall buttresses.
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Gallery of arcade under a clerestory.
Triptych
A set of three paintings often on panels that are related in subject matter, often seen as a backdrop to the high altar in a church.
GALLERY - long porch across a facade
GINGERBREADdecorative woodwork
HIPPED ROOFa roof that slopes on four sides ...
Gallery
long, narrow passage or room, often overlooking a great hall or garden
Garderobe ...
Gallery of the counterscarp: A defensive position situated in the counterscarp or the outer side of the ditch of a fortification, which was used to flank the ditch, also known as a 'counterscarp gallery'.
2. A gallery that projects over the main floor in a theater or an auditorium
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An open gallery similar to a porch or balcony, but located on the ground level and covered by a roof supported by columns.
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LOGGIA - A gallery open on one or more sides, sometimes pillared. It may also be a separate structure, usually in a garden.
LAMINATION - Splitting away of surface of tiles etc. (delamination).
A loggia is a gallery formed by a colonnade open on one or more sides. The space is often located on an upper floor of a building overlooking an open...
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Machicolation
- gallery or parapet projected on corbels with floor openings through which missiles can be dropped. Supposedly introduced to the west following the crusades.
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Loggia
A roofed gallery with an open arcade or colonnade on at least one side.
Minaret
A slender, lofty tower with balconies, attached to a Muslim mosque.
Rood Loft
The gallery upon which the rood is supported.
Rood Screen
A screen built beneath the rood loft.
Tribune : A vaulted gallery which forms or covers the ceiling of an isle.
Tympanum : The section atop the Lintel of a portal or doorway, enclosed by an arch, often featuring significant sculpture work.
loggia: An exterior gallery, open on one or more sides, with a colonnade or an arcade.
Bartizan: An overhanging battlemented corner turret, corbelled out; sometimes as grandiose as an overhanging gallery; common in Scotland and France.
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belvedere an architectural structure, such as a gazebo or a roofed open gallery, situated in a landscape so as to command a good view of the surrounding countryside; literally "beautiful view" in Latin.
wide, with return flights of stairs, rising through two floors; the staircase in the temple of Zeus at Olympia leading to the gallery, is supposed to have been in wood, ...
The interior order exhibits the defects of the imperfectly organized Norman system, particularly in the lofty, vaulted triforium or gallery, so great in size that there is no rhythm in the relationship of arcade, triforium and clerestory, ...
gallery Also called a tribune. An upper story over an aisle, opening on to the nave.
Gallery - An intermediate floors or platform projecting from a wall of an auditorium or a hall providing extra floor area, additional seating accommodation etc. Long thin room, also in a church, an upper floor overlooking the nave.
Inside the building consists of a two-storey hall with a gallery at first-floor level. Bridges which run diagonally from the corners of the gallery connect to a balcony supported by a central pillar.
Among his finest works are three battle scenes (Uffizi, Florence; National Gallery, London; Louvre, Paris) made in the late 1440s for the Medici Palace in Florence, in which all the participants are shown sharply foreshortened.
LoftA upper room or floor, especially within a roof space; also, a gallery in a church.Loggia(Italian): A gallery or room with regular openings along one main side, sometimes free-standing.
Interior view of gallery
Interior view of guest room
Interior view of hearth and dining area
Interior view of living room and south alcove
Interior view of living room
Interior view of master bedroom dressing area
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Side elevations for Early Gothic was mostly quadripartite elevation, with four stories of windows and levels, labeled the nave arcade, gallery, triforium, and clerestory.
Hoarding: covered wooden gallery affixed to the top of the outside of a tower or curtain to defend the castle
Inner Ward or Inner Bailey: open area in the center of a castle
Keep: the inner stronghold of the castle ...
Porch - An open or enclosed gallery or room on the outside of a building.
Portico - A large porch usually with a pediment roof supported by classical columns or pillars.
veranda - a roofed, open gallery or porch; a large covered porch extending along one or more sides of a building and designed for outdoor living.
verge board - see bargeboard ...
Clerestory - The uppermost story and the windows in it above the aisles, gallery and triforium.
Crossing - The bay where the nave, choir and transepts meet.
Crypt - The vaulted passage and chapels beneath the main floor.
In the architecture of fortifications, an overhanging gallery projecting on brackets and built on the outside of towers and walls, with openings in the floor through which defenders could drop missiles and boiling liquids onto attackers.
loggia - passage or gallery colonaded on 1 or 2 sides.
meander -a running ornament consisting of an intricate variety of Greek fretwork.
Loggia (c/f Belvedere) - An open (at least on one side) usually colonnaded, gallery, used as a meeting place. Loggias were first developed in Renaissance Italy.
Lozenge - Diamond shaped panel.
The Shingle style was not particularly popular in Fullerton, but there are a couple of good examples within the city: the Gallemore House (1913), now an art gallery/café called Veronese, ...
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loggia 1. An arcaded or colonnaded structure, open on one or more sides, sometimes with an upper story. 2. An arcaded or colonnaded porch or gallery attached to a larger structure.
glyphs) in the center and half grooves at the edges TURRET: a very small, slender tower TYMPANUM: the area between the lintel of a doorway and the arch above it VAULT: an arched ceiling or roof of stone, brick, or concrete VERANDA: and open gallery ...
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