Rose window
A round window divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery that imitate a multi-petalled rose
Frequently found on the facades of Gothic style churches and less frequently on Romanesque style churches ...
Rose Window : Arguably one of the finest developments in the history of Western art.
Rose window
The large, circular window with tracery and stained glass frequently used in the façades of Gothic churches.
Rose Window: A circular window composed of patterned tracery arranged in petal-like, or Rose-like,, formation.
Spire: An elongated, pointed structure which rises from a tower, turret or roof.
Medieval Architecture Glossary of Terms ...
Rose window - A round window, sometimes with tracery set into it.
St. Anne - Mother of Virgin Mary, who, according to the apocryphal gospel called Protoevangelium Jacabi, also was visited by an angel and conceived a child.
Rose window - a large, circular window with heavily foliated tracery branching out from a common center. More at The Virtual Gothic Cathedral & Rose Window Geometry ...
Rose window: A large round window on the west façade or transept, containing tracery that became more elaborate as the Gothic era progressed (fig.2, C). Beautiful examples occur at Notre-Dame in Paris and Chartres.
Rose window
a large, circular window decorated with stained glass and tracery.
Rosin ...
Rose Window
Found generally in Gothic architecture, a rose window is a circular window that has ornamental tracery radiating from the center. Rose windows are found above the west door or above the doors on the transepts.
rose window
window - a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
Translations ...
Wheel Window \ Rose Window
- a round window with a central point from which a form of spoke may radiate.
A rose window has intricate tracery which may appear as rose petals.
the classic revival, the examples generally are poor in design, and even in those that are more elaborate (as those of the period of Henry II. in the church at Le Grand Andely) the introduction of classic details in the ordinary and rose windows was ...
Amiens Cathedral showing the three portals and rose window.
The plan is cruciform but the transepts do not project beyond the aisles, giving the church a compact appearance.
With the cathedral of Paris, also, the new art shows itself in all its wonderful inclusiveness; design, as apart from constructive science, appears full flood in the entire treatment of the exterior; the Lombard rose window has been evolved to its ...
In Louis IX's Psalter (composed after 1255), the gables with rose windows that frame the miniatures were patterned after the ornamental gables surmounting the exterior of the Sainte-Chapelle.
Rose Window - Round window in a frame of heavy tracery radiating out like the spokes of a wheel, and containing stained glasses.
Rotunda - Round building, sometimes enclosed in a colonnade ;also a round room ...
Chartres Cathedral: North Transept Rose Window
Chartres Cathedral: South Transept Rose Window
Amiens Cathedral ...
Art Nouveau windows in the northern section of the nave designed by painter Alfons Mucha
The Rose Window above the portal designed by Frantisek Kysela
After nearly 600 years of construction, St. Vitus Cathedral was finally completed in 1929.
Interior view of rose window, east facade
Interior view of south choir triforium
Interior view of south transept triforium
Interior view #1 of southwest tower
Interior view #2 of southwest tower
Interior view of southwest tower staircase ...
Rayonnant - The Gothic style prevailing in French from c. 1230 to c. 1350, named after the radiating arrangement of lights in rose windows.
Notre-Dame d'Amiens Cathedral ...
round a square open well framed by newel posts.Wheel house(Scots): Late Iron Age stone dwelling, round with partition walls like wheel spokes.Wheel windowA circular window with radiating shafts like spokes. Compare rose window.
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, and the large rose window above the central portal provides ...
 See also: Architecture, Gothic, Roman, Tracery, Romanesque
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