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The late Romanesque tympanum of Vézelay Abbey, Burgundy, France, 1130s. A tympanum (pl.: tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch. [1] It often contains pedimental sculpture or other imagery or ...
The story is not part of either Bonaventure’s or Thomas of Celano’s Lives of Francis, nor is it to be found in the famous Little Flowers of Saint Francis. It does not appear until at least the late 14th century and the inscription and chapel themselves are the earliest surviving record, dated to between 1316-1354. [3] Inscription over the door
The facade was finally restored in 1856, after the completion of the restoration of the building, the floors with the burial sites underneath, and the surrounding spaces that parish priest, Alberto De Capitani d'Arzago had started in 1854. A plaque against the right wall of the church lists the priests of Santa Maria alla Porta.
The Raunds Clock and the west towers painted tympanum. St Peter’s is home to the Raunds Clock, a rare 15th century (c. 1420) decorated mechanical clock, located under the tower arch in a tympanum. The painted clockface follows the 24 hour reckoning rather than the earlier medieval day and is one handed.
First attested in English in the late 19th century, the Italian word timpani derives from the Latin tympanum (pl. tympana), which is the latinisation of the Greek word τύμπανον (tumpanon, pl. tumpana), 'a hand drum', [3] which in turn derives from the verb τύπτω (tuptō), meaning 'to strike, to hit'. [4]
The last inaugural luncheon to not include ice cream as part of the dessert was President George W. Bush's second inauguration in 2005. The luncheon has traditionally consisted of a three-course meal.
Last Judgment by Gislebertus in the west tympanum at the Autun Cathedral The Temptation of Eve, detail, now at the Musée Rolin. Gislebertus, Giselbertus or Ghiselbertus, sometimes "of Autun" (flourished in the 12th century), was a French Romanesque sculptor, whose decoration (about 1120–1135) of the Cathedral of Saint Lazare at Autun, France – consisting of numerous doorways, tympanums ...
The notches have been interpreted as part of an auditory structure and are often reconstructed as holding a tympanum similar to those seen in modern anurans. Analysis of the columella (the stapes in amphibians and reptiles) of labyrinthodonts however indicates that it did not function in transmitting low-energy vibrations, thus rendering these ...