| 单词 | semicircular arch |
| 例句 | Of the nave three bays of the south side are still standing, and the windows have pointed arches externally and semicircular arches internally. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z In France this abandonment of the Roman semicircular arch came very gradually. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z The Pointed arches rest upon pillars, possibly Norman, and above them, below the Decorated clerestory windows, is a series of semicircular arches with flamboyant tracery, a remarkable feature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z The Assyrian tradition would seem to have descended first to the Parthian builders, who in the palace of El Hadr built semicircular arches with regular voussoirs decoratively treated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The semicircular arch is the most characteristic feature of this style. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli There is a bridge over the Harlem river 1450 ft. in length, consisting of fifteen semicircular arches; its soffit is 100 ft. above high water, and its cost was $963,427. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" The vaults of the Norman period were simple barrel- or waggon-headed vaults, and semicircular arches only were used in their construction. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The exteriors of their buildings differ very greatly from the interiors, in which the round-headed windows and semicircular arches of the Romanesque style are retained, enriched, however, with beautiful and ornate carving. Architecture The decoration of wall-surfaces by arcades, frequently of intersecting semicircular arches, is characteristic of the Norman school. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The architecture of this first court is very simple; it consists of a plain arcade of semicircular arches supported on square piers, and a repetition of the same on the first story. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. The other branch of the aqueduct was 300 ft. long, and consisted of twelve semicircular arches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" So is the employment of the semicircular arch for the doorways of this thoroughly Gothic building. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Its semicircular arches support a relief representing Christ entering Jerusalem. Cathedrals of Spain It is in two storeys, in the lower one three semicircular arches flanked by columns with extremely classic capitals. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" It is a quadrangular edifice, pierced with a low semicircular arch. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. The semicircular arches which surmount the door are finely executed, and the columns which support them are decorated with handsome twelfth-century statuettes. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain The chapel, then, is supported at the corners by four large pilasters, which likewise uphold the great cornice that runs right round, over which curve four semicircular arches that lie in line with the pilasters. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero In the Byzantine palaces the entrances appear always to have been rather great gates than doors, magnificent semicircular arches opening 271 to the water, and surrounded by rich sculpture in the archivolts. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), The Norman nave is of eight bays with semicircular arches, surmounted by a triforium of rows of arches almost equal to those below, and rising from piers with clustered side-columns. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The semicircular arches consist of one round moulding with round cusps. Portuguese Architecture The eastern bay of the nave is square on plan, bounded by semicircular arches, all extended so as to form short barrel vaults. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture The stream of water which served to irrigate the gardens of the monastery, entered a wall by a large semicircular arch or opening near the garden itself. Roman Catholicism in Spain On the columns rested semicircular arches, also of wood, in imitation of Gothic art. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 It contained a tomb built up in its center, covered by three stones as struts, over which was a semicircular arch of brick. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life It contains two life-size effigies of Lord and Lady Dacre lying under a canopy which is supported by two pillars with gilded capitals; above is a semicircular arch. Chelsea The Fascination of London Below the dome arches the central area communicates with the surrounding ambulatory on the north, west, and south sides by large semicircular arches corbelled slightly out from the piers. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture The building consists of an arcade of nine semicircular arches supported on eight Doric columns. The Care of Books The first and grandest style resulted merely from the application of the pointed arch to the frequent Romanesque window, the large semicircular arch divided by three small ones. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The second stripe, about thirty feet in height, answers to the second story of the interior, where the semicircular arches of the niches are situated. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Another fact worthy of remark is that the semicircular arches of the doorway are struck from slightly different centres. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The semicircular arch of the thirteenth century still holds sway in Provence. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life A semicircular arch was thrown across it, supporting the stone roof; and a gate, so large that camels could pass in and out, opened on the street. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 There were some good Corinthian capitals, fragments of cornices, and portions of semicircular arches, and pieces of walls that had been repaired at different periods. Byeways in Palestine The triforium consists of plain, chamfered, semicircular arches and jambs in three orders; the clerestory has simple pointed windows, moulded on sconsion, but without cusps. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys The semicircular arches which support the roof spring from the capitals of the main arcade, and are merely wide bands of stone, without moulding or adornment of any kind. Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less There is in this, as in the other, a grand semicircular arch on the eastern side, and portions of another which probably communicated with some chapel, of which however there are neither remains nor record. Ely Cathedral In figure A of a semicircular arch we see the 258 underneath portion of the arch reflected in the water, but we do not see it in the actual object. The Theory and Practice of Perspective A. It is distinguished without difficulty by its semicircular arches, its massive piers, which are generally square or cylindrical, though sometimes multangular in form, and from numerous ornamental details and mouldings peculiar to the style. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. The roofs are peculiar, being in the form of well-constructed semicircular arches, all of mud, and in many cases the tops of the outside walls are adorned by a kind of balustrade of open brickwork. Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt The first consists of semicircular arches supported by small pillars with Corinthian capitals. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 This is ornamented on each side of the entrance of the tomb with four pilasters cut in relief in the solid rock, each pair being connected by a semicircular arch also in relief. Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders By means of the quarter-circle A we can obtain the points through which to draw the semicircular arches in the same way as in the previous figure. The Theory and Practice of Perspective The stilted arch is chiefly found in conjunction with the semicircular arch in the construction of Norman vaulting over a space in plan that of a parallelogram. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. The semicircular arch, in fact, bends to the earth, for it has not the point, soaring upwards, of the lancet arch. The Cathedral These quarters were generally colonnaded or cloistered, with a series of semicircular arches, and roofed with red tiles. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California In the triforium gallery, above the transverse arches of the aisles, were other semicircular 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 Raise the semicircular arch K, shown by a dotted line. The Theory and Practice of Perspective In the remains of Malmesbury Abbey Church a Norman triforium with semicircular arches is supported on pointed arches which are enriched with Norman mouldings, and spring from massive cylindrical Norman piers. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Almost under me I noticed some of the semicircular arches of rotten red brick that were once a part of the Spanish barracks. Strange True Stories of Louisiana A semicircular arch spans the whole church from side to side, about thirty feet, on which the original decorations still remain. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California The space between each corbel is bridged over by small single stones cut out to the shape of a semicircular arch. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See The question is, therefore, whether an elliptical or semicircular arch is to be preferred? The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces The culvert was formed by cutting a gullet 14 ft. wide with nearly vertical sides through the rock, and covering it with a semicircular arch 4 ft. in thickness. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 It is powerful and simple in design, governed by semicircular arches—a feature which is absent from the rest. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Passing this barrier, the two objects that immediately catch one's eye are the semicircular arch dividing the church from the altar and the old wooden pulpit on the left. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California The bridge consists of one semicircular arch, of 100 feet span, each of the great ribs consisting of two pieces only. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain There was a light immediately above the semicircular arch of this opening. The Innocence of Father Brown Much discussion has centred round certain semicircular arches at the back of the triforium, whose ornament is unmistakably Norman, suggesting that the early nave was merely remodelled in the later period. Yorkshire Low down, it seemed as if crushed, thickset columns supported the semicircular arches of the side-aisles. The Dream Some suppose that the idea of making the arch pointed was suggested by the intersection of semicircular arches in ornamental arcades. English Villages It is then seen to have been an open porch of four semicircular arches, and may possibly have been erected over the tomb of S. Trophimus. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc The Roman stratum, which is the oldest and the lowest, is occupied by the semicircular arch, which reappears, together with the Greek column, in the modern and uppermost stratum of the Renaissance. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 It was composed of three semicircular arches inclosing one another, the innermost of which had a diameter of twelve feet, large enough to be traversed by a Roman hay-cart. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. A broad, fluctuating, semicircular arch of vivid white light spanned the northern quarter of the heavens, reaching from the horizon to the star Eta in the Greater Bear. Two on a Tower It has semicircular arches, made of Roman bricks, springing from square massive piers with single abaci. English Villages The channel, covered by a semicircular arch, was just wide enough for one boat to pass through, with oars out. The Lock and Key Library The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: North Europe — Russian — Swedish — Danish — Hungarian It has not, like the abbey at Tournus, the sober massive breadth, the round expansive arch, the icy bareness, the majestic simplicity of those buildings based on the semicircular arch. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Saxon doorways have semicircular arches, and sometimes the head is shaped in the form of a triangle. English Villages |
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