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  2. Candelabra - Wikipedia

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    A candelabrum (plural candelabra but also used as the singular form) is a candle holder with multiple arms. [1] [2] [3] "Candelabra" can be used to describe a variety of candle holders including chandeliers. However, candelabra can also be distinguished as branched candle holders that are placed on a surface such as the floor, stand, or tabletop.

  3. Acoustic jar - Wikipedia

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    Resonance amphora embedded in the wall of the church of the Chartreuse Notre-Dame-du-Val-de-Bénédiction [], Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.. An acoustic jar, also known by the Greek name echea (ηχεία, literally echoers), or sounding vases, are ceramic vessels found set into the walls, ceilings, and sometimes floors, of medieval churches.

  4. Mosaic ceiling of the Florence Baptistery - Wikipedia

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    The wheel's structure is formed of classical swirls with rays containing candelabra, whose fantastical composition seem to anticipate 15th and 16th century grotesque art. Below is a vase between two facing animals such as deer (recalling Psalm 41's "as the deer seeks water, so the soul seeks God"), birds and strange fish-men with fins on their ...

  5. Chandelier - Wikipedia

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    A medieval chandelier, from King René's Tournament Book, 1460. Wooden cross-beam chandeliers were the early form of chandelier used in a domestic setting and they were found in the households of the wealthy in the medieval period. The wooden cross beams were attached to a vertical wooden pillar, and on each of the four arms a candle may be placed.

  6. Jettying - Wikipedia

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    A double jettied timber-framed building. The ends of the multiple cantilevered joists supporting the upper floors can easily be seen.. Jettying (jetty, jutty, from Old French getee, jette) [1] is a building technique used in medieval timber-frame buildings in which an upper floor projects beyond the dimensions of the floor below.

  7. Art in bronze and brass - Wikipedia

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    Vast numbers of bronze and brass ewers, holy-water vessels, reliquaries and candelabra were produced in the Middle Ages. In general, most of the finest work was executed for the Church. [2] An important centre of medieval copper and brass casting (Dutch: geelgieten; literally "yellow casting") was the Meuse Valley