Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 tympanum is a skin or hide stretched over one end of a wooden frame. It is half of a symphonia (i.e. another type of drum) and it looks like a sieve. The tympanum is so named because it is a half, whence also the half-pearl is called a tympanum. Like the symphonia, it is struck with a drumstick. [9]
The work of the atelier "Le grand atelier ducal du Folgoët" [a] —one of the two main workshops, with the other being the "atelier cornouaillais du Maître de Tronoën" [b], that emerged during the veritable "golden age" of carving in stone in 15th-century Brittany, considered a marked renaissance, after little activity in the 13th and 14th centuries—can be broken down into two sections ...
The tympanum is a Last Judgement scene. Donor Louis, Count of Vendôme, 1417. 38 - Miracles of Our Lady. ... Restored in the 17th century, one panel restored in 1915,
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 Hatch Restore 2 is a full-featured sunrise alarm clock that leverages the power of having a treasure trove of features in a mobile app — but that could also be viewed as a weakness.
The tympanum was rediscovered and released from the plaster in 1837. [13] In 1766, the canons decided that the sculpture was not worth keeping because it was mediocre. They then covered everything in a layer of plaster in order to affix other art work on top of the tympanum.
The burial insignia were recovered from a hiding place where they were stored in 1939. - Go Vilnius