Greek cross: A cross with four equal arms at right angles. See also: Iconography in Art and Architecture: Greek cross ...
Greek crossA cross with four arms of equal length.Greek Doric
Click on the picture to learn more ...
Greek cross - A cross with four equal arms.
Groin vault - A vault produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel (tunnel) vaults. Sometimes the arches of groin vaults may be pointed instead of round.
Greek Cross - A cross in which all the arms are the same length.
Iconography - Applies to the symbolic meaning of images depicted in works of art.
Inner flyers - The inner flying buttress arch over a double aisle, usually at the apse end.
Greek Cross
This is a cross shape in which all the arms are the same lengths. In architecture, used as a term to describe a church whose ground plan resembles this shape.
The plan is a Greek cross with the front portico being the longest branch.
Panthéon Interior ...
Greek cross plan Church floor plan with four equal arms. See also Latin Cross Plan. groin vault Vault (ceiling) of a bay formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults. hagioscope Also called a squint.
[edit] Latin Cross and Greek Cross
While the churches of Western Europe favoured the longitudinal plan of the so-called Latin cross, the churches of Byzantium favoured the centrally-planned Greek cross surmounted by a dome and with several apses.
If the sections are of the same length and cross at the centre, they form a Greek cross; if one section is shorter than the other, intersecting it at about a third of its length, they form a Latin cross.
In drawing the first plan (1503-1506) Bramante rejected the Western basilica concept in favour of a Greek cross of equal arms with a central dome.
 See also: Greek, Church, Architecture, Ornament, Vault
|
