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Dome construction for state capitol buildings and county courthouses in the United States flourished in the period between the American Civil War and World War I. [75] Most capitols built between 1864 and 1893 were landmarks for their cities and had gilded domes. [76] Examples from the Gilded Age include those of California, Kansas, Connecticut ...
The dome was one of many inspired by that of St. Peter's Basilica and it is an outstanding example of French Baroque architecture. In 1861 the body of Napoleon Bonaparte was moved from St. Helena to the most prominent location under the dome.
The Great Mosque of Córdoba contains the first known examples of the crossed-arch dome type. [159] The use of corner squinches to support domes was widespread in Islamic architecture by the 10th and 11th centuries. [144] After the ninth century, mosques in North Africa often have a small decorative dome over the mihrab.
It passed into the church architecture of the Roman world and was adapted in different ways as a feature of cathedral architecture. [ 11 ] The earliest large churches, such as the cathedral of St John Lateran in Rome, consisted of a single-ended basilica with one apsidal end and a courtyard, or atrium , at the other end.
Haruniyeh Dome; Hiroshima Peace Memorial; History of domes in South Asia; History of early and simple domes; History of early modern period domes; History of Italian Renaissance domes; History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes; History of modern period domes; History of Persian domes; History of Roman and Byzantine domes; Hosh al-Basha
In architecture, a pendentive is a constructional device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or of an elliptical dome over a rectangular room. [1] The pendentives, which are triangular segments of a sphere, taper to points at the bottom and spread at the top to establish the continuous circular or elliptical base needed for a dome. [2]
Domes; Symbolism; History of; Early and simple domes; Persian domes; Roman and Byzantine domes; Medieval Arabic and Western European domes; Italian Renaissance domes; South Asian domes; Early modern period domes; Modern period domes; Styles
Tropical Modernism, or Tropical Modern, is a style of architecture that merges modernist architecture principles with tropical vernacular traditions, emerging in the mid-20th century. The term is used to describe modernist architecture in various regions of the world, including Latin America, Asia and Africa, as detailed below.