| 单词 | round arch |
| 例句 | It also uses an open form called a spandrel arch, which doesn’t fill in the space between the round arch shape below and roadway above. Washington’s rising Frederick Douglass bridge lifts the human spirit 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z With its tall ceiling, round arches, chandeliers and decorated friezes, plus its famed white glazed terra-cotta facade adorned with festoons, cornices and Corinthian keystones, the building certainly has the pomp of a grand museum. Seattle’s downtown Banana Republic store to become art space 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The churches had round arches and a heavy roof held up by thick walls and pillars. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The new building is imposing but not garish: with double-height round arch windows and a shallow roof, it resembles a departmental college library. London’s Most Mysterious Mansion 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Neither the Egyptians nor early Greeks appear to have used the arch structurally in their buildings; the Romans, however, had the round arch as a primary structural element. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z The sepulchre is a closed chamber, with another above it open half-way round on the lake side, and a colonnade of very beautiful pillars supports round arches, above which are five exquisitely-carved friezes. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Rō′mist.—Roman architecture, a style characterised by the size and boldness of its round arches and vaults, &c.—baths, aqueducts, basilicas, amphitheatres, &c.; Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z We can imagine the original castle, which this one superseded, to have been much the same only with heavy round arches. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z In the interior a circular colonnade, composed of eight extremely massive four-sided piers bearing round arches, supports the stone dome. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z In a niche at the west-end is a figure of the Virgin Mary: the roof is supported by round arches, springing from massive columns. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Did you know it was the interlacing of the round arches that gave the first idea of the pointed arch, dear? Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show 2011-09-19T02:00:13.900Z The greatest debt they owed to their new settlers was the low round arch, built with stones set in mortar in such a way that the greater the weight, the firmer the arch would be. The Childhood of Rome 2011-06-02T02:00:22.297Z The interior shows early "pointed" and simple round arches, with pilasters and pediment which bear little relation to Gothic, and are yet not Romanesque of the conventional variety. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Lower still, beneath the presbytery and choir, down twenty steps, is a very ancient crypt, in which forty marble columns support the round arches that carry the weight of the fabric above. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z At first they were built in the "Romanesque" style brought from the continent, with plain round arches, as Brian Boru made them about A.D. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z The arches were chiefly semi-circular, the round arch being used everywhere for ornament. Cathedral Cities of England The round arch is employed in this building, but the general proportions and treatment are essentially Gothic. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Here again was an architectural dream, grand in design, of noblest proportions: six splendid bays on each side, each bay enclosing three round arches. Glories of Spain The columns that support the round arches are a light grey marble; the capitals, Corinthianized Byzantine. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z But here, westward even of the borders of the Rhine, the round arch lingered on, to the exclusion of any very marked Gothic tendency. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine He founded a church, built in the style usual then in Italy, of brick or stone with round arches. Cathedral Cities of England It has just been stated that the pure Romanesque condition is the round arch under the low gable, a, Fig. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), Surrounding us were the wonderful cloister bays with their round arches resting on the white marble columns, all enclosed in an outer pointed arch. Glories of Spain The centre is occupied by the portal which has a good pediment and a round arch borne by highly ornate pilasters. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The three apses, and their round arches and galleries, are like a bit of Italy transported northward. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine A chief characteristic of the Roman buildings was the "round arch," mainly composed of brick or stone work. Cathedral Cities of England XI.,70 on page 213,—A, the lintel; B, the round arch; C, the gable. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), As we left the fair and turned into the quieter streets, it seemed almost a natural consequence that from one of the deep round arches there glided the quiet, graceful form of Rosalie. Glories of Spain The grand campanile at the south east-corner was put up by Ercole II., and is composed of four tiers of round arches on columns with Corinthian capitals. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Then the curves so described give the pointed arches belonging to each of the round arches; g, the flat pointed arch, h, the central pointed arch, and i, the lancet pointed arch. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) The Venetian dentil was also introduced as a label round arches and as a string course. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" There is no sacredness in round arches, nor in pointed; none in pinnacles, nor in buttresses; none in pillars, nor in traceries. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), A court with round arches on either side resting on pillars with small capitals. Glories of Spain Inside, the nave is divided by twelve round arches on each side; these are supported by columns of cipollino marble. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The courtyard has an arcade of round arches, four on each side, and one of a greater breadth at each end, resting on octagonal piers, the caps and arches moulded simply. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Germany and Italy the round arch held its own and continued to be used right through the Middle Ages. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them The first two of these styles—namely, the architecture of the beam, and that of the round arch—are treated of in this little volume. Architecture Classic and Early Christian The simple round arches rest on coupled pillars of marble, slender and graceful. Glories of Spain The triforium gallery has elegant pillars in pairs, that support round arches. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The south door has round arches beneath an ogee hood, the jambs are ornamented with damaged scrolled leafage, and in the tympanum is a figure of S. Dominic. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The nave has a sharper arched top than the two aisles, which have round arches. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose Of these the lowest has five round arches resting on Ionic columns; in FIG. Portuguese Architecture Like those of the other doors and windows, the casings are of architrave pattern and in the center of the round arch is a keystone-shaped ornament hand-tooled in wood. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia The seven round arches of the blind arcade that form the lowest tier or base are continued round the entire fabric. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Behind the church is the first cloister, surrounded by an arcade resting on coupled octagonal colonnettes with unmoulded round arches, divided into groups of six by piers. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The Virgin's Fountain, issuing from the church, flows into a big, stone basin under a round arch. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Between are three round arches, enclosing three doors of which the central has a pointed pediment, while over the others a small round window lights the interior. Portuguese Architecture There is the same rustication of casings and jambs up to the height of the doors, but molded spandrils occupy the spaces each side of the round arch with its wide ornate keystone. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia The nave is divided into ten bays; the columns that support the round arches are magnificent monoliths of granite. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Higher up the hill is another cloister, long and narrow, with round arches resting on square piers, and a well under a picturesque penthouse roof. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Beyond the zinc bar was an irregular room with Nile-green walls into which light still filtered through three little round arches high up on one side. Rosinante to the Road Again The court is very large, and the galleries have round arches and white marble columns, but is somehow wanting in interest. Portuguese Architecture So he had turned to the Gothic form, which always asserted the broken desire of mankind in its pointed arches, escaping the rolling, absolute beauty of the round arch. The Rainbow Its columns support round arches that are surmounted in piers by crocketed gables, pierced and cusped. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The three upper stories have two window openings in each, the lowest being single lights, while the upper two have a central colonnette and two stilted round arches beneath a containing arch. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia It was white everywhere—walls, ceiling, and the plain massive pillars of strong masonry on which rested the low round arches. The Golden House João da Silva lies in armour under a round arch carved with flowers and cherubs. Portuguese Architecture It's got heavy, round arches, rather low, on thick pillars. The Rainbow The piers which support the three round arches have each four slender columns. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The nave arcade, which continues to the apse, consists of ten round arches on each side resting alternately on columns and piers with columns attached which have cushion caps. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The round arch of that ancient Norman school which was at one time so generally recognized as Saxon, prevails in the edifice, and marks out its older portions. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland This was further developed at Fontfroide near Narbonne, where an arcade of four small round arches under a large pointed arch carries a thin wall pierced by a large round circle. Portuguese Architecture "Did you notice the round arches and the pointed arches?" The End of a Coil The nine bays on either side of the nave have round arches. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The triforium is of two round arches to each bay, with short coupled columns, now built up, and with wooden figures of the Apostles set in each arch. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The tower itself is arcaded in the two lower storeys, having round arches in the lower and triangular in the upper, and there is a round-headed S. doorway and a triangular-headed N. doorway. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" In each the king lies under a great round arch, on a high altar-tomb, on whose front, under an egg and tongue moulding a large scroll bearing an inscription is upheld by winged children. Portuguese Architecture All trace of the round arch has now disappeared and the columns are formed by massive pillars. Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Nine columns of grand proportions bearing round arches support the arcade that forms part of the courtyard. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Across the transepts two round arches are thrown in a line with the aisle walls, resting on very thin columns of cipollino; that on the south is of several pieces not belonging to each other. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia It was a roofless circular tower, supported on round arches, which made a series of openings about its base. A Little Country Girl The cloister, with round arches and coupled columns, seems thoroughly romanesque in character, as are also the capitals. Portuguese Architecture The north aisle has three bays with round arches, and two eastward with pointed arches. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Granite columns with gilt Corinthian capitals support a triforium gallery composed of round arches with Ionic pillars. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The upper church, since then a chapter house, was built in Romanesque style, with round arches, two rose windows, and three sanctuary windows with wide splays. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England The aisles were divided from each other by massive round pillars which supported the round vaulting of the roof and were connected by round arches. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe In France what was perhaps its very first beginnings may be seen in the Cistercian abbey of Fontenay near Monbart, where in each bay there are two round arches enclosed under one larger round arch. Portuguese Architecture The smooth round arch of the falling water glistened for a moment in mid-air. The House with the Green Shutters The centre one has round arches, and the other two are pointed. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Here the round arches of the triforium have been built up, and the clearstorey harmonizes with the more elaborate scheme of the choir. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric A round arch of a given span can be only half as high as it is wide, but the pointed arch may have a great diversity of proportions. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe On the north side there are a plain square-headed doorway and two bold round arches let into the outer wall over the graves of some great men of these distant times. Portuguese Architecture I need scarcely add that the round arch is exclusively employed in pure Lombard architecture. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The inner courtyard is partly of red brick with a good corridor of the thirteenth century, formed of pointed and round arches and brick groining. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The westernmost bay shows in the triforium stage a round arch comprising four pointed arches. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Festoons run below the actual windows, the concave side piers have panels, and the round arches above diamond-shaped patterns. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Above her rises a round arch set in a square frame. Portuguese Architecture In this old wall is the fine transitional doorway here pictured, with round arches, but with the well-known dog-tooth moulding. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See This good feature is composed of round arches, containing small round-headed lights. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The clearstorey shows in the broad bay a stilted round arch, pierced, between two small blind lancets, and in the narrow bay three small blind lancets. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric The framework is of Roman design, with pilasters and a round arch; and remembering Wren's conception, it is interesting that the columns of Brescia marble, supporting the entablature above, are twisted. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Reached by a picturesque stair on the south side, the three-centred arches each enclose two or three smaller round arches, with the224 spandrils merely pierced or sometimes cusped. Portuguese Architecture Columns with rich and highly classical capitals, supporting arches which are just pointed, have been inserted under the massive round arches of the original church, but the arches are still there and visible. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine A small arcade of engaged colonnettes goes right round the whole church; the larger pillars have carved capitals, and there is the usual conventional Norman moulding on the round arches. The Story of Rouen The lower parts of the walls display traces of a design in red representing round arches interlaced. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric While the Pointed architecture suggests upward lines, and the Greek entablature horizontal lines, the round arch suggests a neutral position between the two. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch The large door has a round arch with uprights at the sides rising to a horizontal crested moulding. Portuguese Architecture But both the arches of the lantern and the barrelled vault of the choir keep the round arch. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine The vaults beneath are still more extraordinary relics of antiquity, with their massive round arches and double sets of substructures. The Story of Rouen Here the round arch, which is again flanked by two panels, comprises three cinquefoil lights, and the mullions are carried up through the head. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Concentric circles surround the opening; and the remaining surface is ingeniously divided into eight compartments by designs of piers and round arches; the piers coinciding with the eight recesses below. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch The great round arch is filled with two orders of mouldings, one a broad strip of arabesque, the other a series of kneeling angels below and of arabesque above. Portuguese Architecture But when we come nearer, there is hardly a detail—round arches of course alone prove nothing—which does not suggest a later time. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Through the triple portal of the west entrance, with plain round arches set on slightly carved Norman capitals, you pass at once into the nave. The Story of Rouen On the north side the upper tier is interrupted by the piers of an arcading of plainly chamfered round arches, the central bay of which contains a fine mediæval cupboard with iron scroll-work. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric From the Romans the Surveyor adopted the round arch, with its borrowed Grecian architecture partly cut away; and this, next to the dome, is the most striking feature of the interior. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch The inscription is interrupted by brackets, round which the cornice is returned, and on which rest round arches thrown across the four corners, bringing the whole to an equal-sided octagon. Portuguese Architecture The capitals of these columns are carved with leaves or with leaves and grotesques; on them round arches rest; and above is a narrow foliated cornice. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 The chapel of Lanleff is composed of two concentric circular enclosures separated by twelve round arches, with cushion-shaped capitals, having heads, human and animal, rudely sculptured upon them at the four angles. Brittany & Its Byways There is a remarkable entrance doorway, the jambs being mere rounds and hollows, with a flat stone laid along at the springing of the round arch. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys The Romanesque round arches and plain short pillars with fluted mouldings date from the eleventh century, while on the floor are ancient tiles of various periods, some of which have been identified as Roman. Westminster Abbey Instead of the large open gallery, which at Santiago allows the quadrant vault supporting the central barrel to be seen, there is here a low blind arcade of small round arches. Portuguese Architecture Great piers and small, firm columns support the outer arches; and on the exterior of the Cloister the little arches of the columns are enclosed in a large round arch. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Here we have, in fact, one of the latest uses of the round arch influenced by the rapidly developing Early English Gothic. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See The lower story has the round arch and vaulting ribs supported on corbels, projected from the round face of the piers. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys For round arches the height may be twice that of the base, varying to one and a half. The Theory and Practice of Perspective They are of the usual Portuguese type of vaulted cloister, a large arch, here pointed, enclosing two round arches below with a circular opening above. Portuguese Architecture It is constructed of Kersanton stone, and consists of three round arches, above which are canopies supporting a gallery of open work decorated with quatrefoils. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 The effect of this chamber was that it was a "double room," for an exquisite screen of mashrebeeyeh work, in the centre of which was a small round arch, divided it into two compartments. Bella Donna A Novel This architecture was perfected by the mediæval builders—the round arch in the twelfth and the pointed arch in the two succeeding centuries. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys The heavy and somber Norman architecture, with its round arches and square, massive towers, was giving place to the more graceful Gothic style, with its pointed arch and lofty, tapering spire. The Leading Facts of English History The buttresses are only shallow strips, which in the transepts are united by round arches, but in the aisles end among the battlements in a larger merlon. Portuguese Architecture And without, before it, he has set, under a vaulted roof, a portico borne by columns, interrupted by a round arch. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition There the central tower stands erect to half its altitude, and the round arches and massive pillars of the nave make a perfect vista on the unencumbered turf. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 Those gates are veritable pictures, with their beautiful round arches and the niche with its fresco underneath. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 The roof rested on round arches supported by heavy columns. The Leading Facts of English History Long tufts of fine grass depended from the gutters of the roof, and the plain pillars supporting the round arches of the loggias had a humid and weather-beaten look. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories It consists of seven round arches; in the centre and in each alternate arch is a door of bronze made by Giovanni da Bologna in 1602. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition When this was done, the great round arches east and west of the tower were changed into pointed arches, but those north and south were left unaltered. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The central arch of the three remained semicircular, but the side ones became pointed in place of the early round arches. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Inside the cathedral can clearly be seen traces of three round arches, which may well be part of the church founded by St. Frideswyde in the eighth century. The Charm of Oxford It is a round arch four yards in width, pierced by Nature between the rocks. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Above is a row of round arches, some of which are pierced into windows. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 There are ten bays, all having round arches; in the triforium each large arch has two smaller ones beneath it; and in each bay of the clerestory is one high arch and two smaller ones. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See I saw in the first square I entered those small Norman windows, with the lovely pillars and the round arch. Heart of Man Its church is cruciform; the nave is separated from the north aisle by round arches, and from the south aisle by pointed arches, which gives it a singular and unusual beauty. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque The six windows on the ground floor are topped with round arches, and coming up the drive the house seems a perfect square. A Mere Accident In the earliest the round arch was used, but the later and more perfect styles having employed the pointed arch almost exclusively, the latter became characteristic of Gothic art generally. Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 A few of the stones of the original Norman arches having been brought to light during the work, some persons wished round arches to be built as at first. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The single round arch of this vestibule repeats the testudo of a Roman bath, and the decorative details are accurately reproduced from similar monuments. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts The round arch is everywhere used, except in two or three windows of later addition. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. Dracula They used the round arch to a great extent. Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 The arcade by the ground consists of pointed arches, though the great doorway has a round arch; all have Early English mouldings. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See S. Lorenzo is a columnar edifice with round arches and semicircular apses. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts They used round arches and domes more than the pointed arches and vaulted roofs of the Gothic builders. Introductory American History Most of these gates have high pointed arches; but a few round arches are seen among them, which, like all the arches of this kind in the Hedjaz, are nearly semi-circular. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred The principal features of its architecture were the dome and round arch. Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 The archway at the south-eastern corner is very elegant, the open quatrefoil above the round arch and below the pointed arch being especially good. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See Here a Saxon thane built a rude timber church which was supplanted by an early Norman structure of stone with round arches and curiously carved ornamentation. English Villages In the modification of it, called the Norman style, we find the round arch associated with massive piers and narrow windows. Outline of Universal History She gave a broad sweep with the pencil, grouping several rapidly evolved windows under a wide, round arch. With the Procession It was a broad window, with a low round arch, looking out on the garden and the sea beyond it. Geoffrey Strong At one angle of the building was a little turret with a belvedere of round arches. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett The great round arches of the nave are supported by pillars which have the early type of capital distinguishing eleventh century work. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 1 It was large, and the flat facade was broken in the middle by an open piazza with round arches and slender columns. The Woman with the Fan The nave and transepts are in the old Romanesque style, with solid pillars and low round arches. Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 In the rear of the palace, like a high belvedere built on the rampart, there appears a gallery formed of ten round arches, supported on slender pilasters. Cæsar or Nothing In each of the low, round arches, a stately woman, tall and nobly planned, draped like a goddess turned saint, stood and chanted to her Lord. In and out of Three Normady Inns Knowledge of the round arch passed over from the Orient to the Etruscans and from them to the Romans. Early European History It is a curious structure in brick and mortar, with an apsis and an odd arrangement of round arches sunken in the outer wall and still deeper pointed ones. Castilian Days It has fifty roofs, it has a gigantic signal tower, it has blank walls like precipices, and round arch after round arch, and architrave after architrave. On Something The round arches of the Christian edifices of Granada seem tame and inelegant, in comparison. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain Most of the chapel is of Norman building, the western doorway for instance, the pillars and round arches on the north of the nave dating from Lanfranc's time. England of My Heart : Spring The principle of the round arch was known in Babylonia at a remote period The transportation of colossal stone monuments exhibits a knowledge of the lever, pulley, and inclined plane. Early European History To the historical imagination, the round arch seems, therefore, to express the genial classical idea of a control by the higher nature which nevertheless did no violence to the demands of the lower. The Principles of Aesthetics Far-descended and weary, but beautiful in its crooked old age, with its lovely proportions, its delicate round arches, its carvings and its disks of marble, is the haunted Montecuculi. Italian Hours We entered by a long passage, with round arches on either side, resting on twin pillars, placed at right angles to the line of the arch, as one sees both in Saracenic and Byzantine structures. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain The principal chamber of the presbytery was cross-vaulted and divided into two by a low round arch supported on slender double columns with capitals fantastically carved. Via Crucis Babylonia gave to them the principle of the round arch and the practice of divination. Early European History In the round arch all four forces are beautifully expressed. The Principles of Aesthetics For so small a building the "barrel vault," a row of round arches, was often used; but David's voice was for the pointed arch throughout. Masters of the Guild You always know their work, because it has round pillars, and round arches, with broad borders of zig-zags, and all manner of patterns round them. Young Folks' History of England The Safa end is closed by a mean-looking building, composed of three round arches, with a dwarf flight of stairs leading up to them out of a narrow road. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 "The dome, with the round arch out of which it sprang, is the most fertile conception in the whole history of building." Early European History By the discoveries of M. Mariette, it is now ascertained that the Egyptians were perfectly acquainted with the round arch and key-stone at a period antecedent to the architectural existence of Greece. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 The Transition is the equilibrium between the love of God—which is faith—and the logic of God—which is reason; between the round arch and the pointed. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres It was only a few steps from the Magdeburger Platz—the first story in a stately house with a round arch over the door. The Malady of the Century The light that floated in under the round arches of the terrace was subdued. The Garden of Allah Long rows of Ionic or Corinthian columns, spanned by round arches, became again the prevailing architectural style. Early European History The narrow passage ended in a round arch all fringed with ferns and creepers. The Enchanted Castle The architect returned to the round arch, and even further to the flatness of the Greek colonnade; but this was not the fault of the twelfth or thirteenth centuries. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres In that lovely round arch there are hints of Gothic, and yet it is not a Gothic arch. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth The Roman layer, which is the most ancient and deepest, is occupied by the round arch, which reappears, supported by the Greek column, in the modern and upper layer of the Renaissance. Notre-Dame De Paris It is also lighter and more graceful than the round arch. Early European History There was room for more than two round arches, but not room enough for three, so it was decided to dock the middle arch a little. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino In the beautiful facade of Laon, one of the chief beauties is the setting of the rose under a deep round arch. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Do I not know that that is infinite space, and that it is not a round arch? Anna Karenina There are four sister and parallel architectures, each having its special character, but derived from the same origin, the round arch. Notre-Dame De Paris The vaulting, windows, and doorways had the form of the round arch, that is, a semicircle, as in the ancient Roman monuments. Early European History Close to Cluny, that Roman palace, with fine round arches, were once the hot baths of Julian. Notre-Dame De Paris It is the graft of the pointed upon the round arch. 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