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The triangular recessed face of a pediment; the space enclosed by a lintel and an arch over a doorway ...
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Tympanum
The area between an arch and the top of a doorway or the area under the raking cornices of a pediment, above the cornice. In Greek architecture these carried scenes of Greek heroism, in Christian, it is stories from the bible.
Tympanum: the surface enclosed by the arch and lintel of an arched doorway, frequently carved with relief sculptures.
Tympanum - The basically semicircular area enclosed by the arch above the lintel of an arched entranceway. This area is often decorated with sculpture in the Romanesque and Gothic periods.
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a recessed ornamental space or panel enclosed by the cornices of a triangular pediment ...
Tympanum - The space enclosed by a lintel and an arch over a doorway.
Typology - The use of prototypes and antitypes as in the use of the Old Testament as a prefiguration of the New.
tympanum - The recessed portion of a triangular pediment, often containing a lunette
volute - The scroll-like spiral dominating the top of an Ionic column
voussoir - A wedge-shaped stone or brick in an arch ...
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.
Tympanum
Space between the lintel and arch of a doorway or opening.
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Tympanum
the triangle in the face of a pediment or the semi-circle in the head of an arch.
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Tympanum
The surface within the head of an arch or pediment.
Vault
A curved stone ceiling. A barrel vault is simply an arched stone tunnel. A groin vault is formed from intersecting barrel vaults.
Tympanum.
The space between the lintel and archway over a doorway or opening. Very often elaborately carved, especially in early churches.
Vault.
Tympanum: A triangular space between an arch and the horizontal bar of a portal or window (lintel), often decorated with sculpture (fig.3,C).
tympanum The panel, usually semicircular, located between the underside of an arch and the top of a doorway within the arch; also the triangular space enclosed by a pediment.
tympanum: (1) triangular or segmental vertical surface enclosed by the mouldings of a pediment, sometimes incorporating sculpture or a lunette; (2) area between the lintel of a doorway and the surmounting arch
vault: an arched ceiling.
Tympanum. Vertical triangular space, plain or with relief decoration, between the slopes of a roof and the horizontal cornice of a temple or other building with a pediment.
TYMPANUM The ornamental recessed space or panel enclosed by the cornices of a triangular pediment. Also, a similar space between an arch and the lintel of a portal or window.
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tympanum - the area within a pediment, often decorated with scroll sawn ornaments, scalloped siding or sculpted figures as in Greek and Roman buildings. p. 16 - where the gables are, p. 28 - inside all the triangular pedimented areas, p.
Tympanum
a lunette over the doorway of a church, often decorated with sculpture.
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Tympanum
In architecture, the semicircular area that fills the space between the lintel and the arch over a doorway.
Tympanum
- the area enclosed by mouldings of a pediment or the lintel of a doorway and the arch above it, often richly carved or decorated.
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Tympanum : The section atop the Lintel of a portal or doorway, enclosed by an arch, often featuring significant sculpture work.
Image at right: Tympanum within the west portal of Notre Dame de Chartres, France.
Tympanum - the triangular area within the recess of a pediment.
Voussoir - one of the wedge-shaped stones used in constructing an arch.
Wadi - a valley with a dry riverbed.
The tympanum of Vézelay Abbey, Burgundy, France, 1130s, has much decorative spiral detail in the draperies.
Related architectural elements: arcade, cusp, hood moulding, spandrel, tympanum. Architrave: The lintel or flat horizontal member which spans the space between columns; in classical architecture, the lowest member of an entablature.
The windows of the Early English period were comparatively narrow slits, and were sometimes grouped together under a single enclosing arch; the piercing of the tympanum of this arch with a circular light produced what is known as plate tracery, ...
Lunette - A semicircular opening or tympanum. The term can also be applied to any flat, semicircular surface
Lych gate - A covered wooden gateway with open sides at the entrance to a churchyard, providing a resting-place for a coffin.
The gable end of the pediment is surrounded by the cornice molding. The tympanum, or triangular area within the pediment, was often decorated with sculptures and reliefs demonstrating scenes of Greek and Roman mythology or allegorical figures.
The simplest kind of pointed arch.Two-decker pulpitA raised and enclosed platform for the preaching of sermons, with a reading desk below. Compare three-decker pulpit.Tympanum ...
a circular staircase - the most economical, if not the most convenient to use, method of accessing upper floors in a vertical tower; also, easier to defend.
Turret - small tower, round or polygonal; usually a lookout.
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or panel, or used decoratively in blank arches and vaults TRIGLYPH: a block separating metopes in a Doric frieze; each has two vertical grooves (or glyphs) in the center and half grooves at the edges TURRET: a very small, slender tower TYMPANUM: the ...
tympanum An area above a door between the lintel and the arch. This area is often filled with sculpture, especially in Romanesque churches. undercroft Also called a crypt.
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