Portal
A doorway, an entrance, or a gate, especially one that is large and imposing
From the Latin "porta," meaning gate
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Portal
Strictly speaking a portal is any doorway, gateway or entrance to an area, but most portals are large and impressive.
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Portal - A doorway, entrance or gate. One that is large and imposing.
Quatrefoil - An architectural ornament having four lobes or foils.
Rayonnant - A thirteenth-century slender radiant style from the court of Louis IX.
Portal: The door or entrance of a cathedral (fig.3).
Fig.5: Pillars (A) with capitals (B) and quatri-partite vaulting (D) containing keystones (C) of the ambulatory of the Cathedral of St-Gervais and St-Protais at Soissons (photo: Athena ...
portal
Any doorway or entrance but especially one that is large and imposing. See also jamb, lintel, trumeau
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portal A monumental entranceway to a building or courtyard.
porte-corchère A covered entrance porch for vehicles.
portico A covered porch, often consisting of columns supporting a pediment.
portal: a doorway.
porte-cochere: a portico through which wheeled traffic can pass.
portico: aa projecting porch consisting of columns and (nearly always) a pediment, often with a flight of steps.
PORTAL an entrance, doorway, or gateway.
PULPIT A raised and enclosed platform in a church from which a preacher delivers a sermon.
PURLIN Horizontal longitudinal timber in a roof structure.
Portal
the doorway of a church and the architectural composition surrounding it.
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Portal
A doorway or entrance, especially one that is large and imposing.
Portal
- a very impressive, even monumental entrance or porch, to a building, courtyard etc ...
The west portal's tympanum reflects an early attempt at recycling: the archivolts surrounding the tympanum were made in the sixteenth century from a collection of
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Image at right: A portal figure at Rheims, featuring the Damp fold technique.
Dog tooth molding : An ornamental feature in which pairs of 'tooth-like' pieces of wood or stone are set to each other in diagonal rows.
Portal - A gate or doorway, esp. great or magnificent one, any entrance, the arch over a gate.
The earliest surviving statue-columns are those of the west portals of Chartres that stem from the older pre-Gothic cathedral and that date from about 1155. The tall, cylindrical figures repeat the form of the colonnettes to which they are bound.
The term "porch" is also given to the magnificent portals of the French cathedrals, where the doors are so deeply recessed as to become porches, such as those of Reims, Amiens, Chartres, Troyes, Rouen, Bourges, Paris, and Beauvais cathedrals, St Ouen, ...
Portal frameA single-storey frame used from the 20th century, comprising two uprights rigidly connected to a beam or pair of rafters, particularly to support a roof.
The large parallelogram of the Gothic harmonic facade, surmounted by twin towers, reiterates in its triple portals and in its threefold vertical divisions the three aisles of the interior, ...
tympanum - a panel above a main portal, or doorway, usually heavily decorated.
vault - an arched ceiling.
voussoir - a wedge-shaped component of an arch. The center voussoir is the keystone.
This photograph shows a full-scale reproduction of the legendary Isthar gateway, an important portal into Babylon.
Reproduction of the legendary Ishtar Gate (Bab Ishtar) in Babylon ...
Lintel - horizontal stone or beam bridging an opening (window or portal).
Loggia - covered arcade or colonnade.
Longbow - large, powerful wooden bow, used to shoot arrows, often over long distances.
trumeau - a center post supporting the lintel that spans the width of an arch in a Romanesque portal ensemble.
Gable - The triangular upper portion of a wall at the end of a pitched roof corresponding to a pediment in classical architecture. It can be used non functionally, e.g. on the portal of a Gothic cathedral.
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The French colonists called it a galerie, the Dutch a stoep (Americanized as stoop), the Spanish a portal, in Italy it is a loggia. Veranda comes from the Portuguese varanda and was first used by the British in India.
the structural means of support for a circular dome to rest on a square dome, a common Byzantine architecture PIER: a solid masonry support, as distinct from a column; the solid mass between doors, windows, and other openings in buildings PORTAL: a ...
The sculptures of St-Denis, of Chartres, of Senlis, and of Paris are perfect examples of sculpture beyond criticism in itself and exquisitely adapted to its architectonic function; the statue of Our Lady in the portal of the north transept of Paris ...
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