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A vaulted semicircular or polygonal end of a chancel or chapel. That portion of a church, usually Christian, beyond the "crossing" and opposite the nave. In some churches, the choir is seated in this space. Araeostyle A style of intercolumniation in which the distance between columns is at least four diameters.
The Vaulted Celing (Portuguese: A Abóbada) is an 1851 historical novel by Alexandre Herculano. [ 1 ] Set in 1401, it deals with the construction of Batalha Monastery by the blind architect Afonso Domingues .
Gothic rib vault ceiling of the Saint-Séverin church in Paris Interior elevation view of a Gothic cathedral, with rib-vaulted roof highlighted. In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.
This style of vaulted ceiling is known as a cathedral ceiling. “Cathedral ceilings normally mirror the roof structure and have sides that slope and meet at a ridge in the center,” says Maggie ...
A plafond (French for "ceiling"), in a broad sense, is a (flat, vaulted or dome) ceiling. A plafond can be a product of monumental painting or sculpture. Picturesque plafonds can be painted directly on plaster (as a fresco, oil, tempera, synthetic paints), on a canvas attached to a ceiling (panel), or a mosaic.
The dome permitted the construction of vaulted ceilings without crossbeams and made possible large covered public spaces such as public baths and basilicas, such as Hadrian's Pantheon, the Baths of Diocletian and the Baths of Caracalla, all in Rome. [9] The Romans first adopted the arch from the Etruscans and implemented it in their own ...
Coffering on the ceiling of the Pantheon Coffered ceiling with carved human heads at Wawel Castle (). A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. [1]
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