quadripartite vault: vault in which each bay contains four cells, divided by groins or ribs.
quattrocento, cinquecento: 15th-century, 16th-century.
Quadripartite Vault:
A four-sectioned vault, divided by diagonal, transverse ribs.
Quatrefoil: ...
QUADRIPARTITE VAULT: a vault in which each bay is crossed by diagonal ribs only. QUATREFOIL: divided into four foils.
of the latter, together with that of the five other similarly vaulted Norman churches and of the choir of St-Denis at Paris, has always been an architectural puzzle, since it is manifestly a stage in the development of the oblong quadripartite vault, ...
To this there are some exceptions, in Sant' Ambrogio, Milan, and San Michele, Pavia (the original vault), and in the cathedrals of Spires, Mainz and Worms, where the quadripartite vaults are nearly square, ...
where the clerestory was lengthened to such an extreme to form the most of the wall. Another attempt at simplifying and unifying the spaces inside the cathedrals was the simplification of the vault sections from sexpartite into quadripartite vaulting.
 See also: Arcade, Vault, Quadripartite, Transept, Church
  
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