Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... choir so ac- curately that when the Carolingian apse left standing in- side it was finally taken down , the new choir was found to be in perfect alignment with the old nave . About the columns Suger said no more than that their number ...
... choir so ac- curately that when the Carolingian apse left standing in- side it was finally taken down , the new choir was found to be in perfect alignment with the old nave . About the columns Suger said no more than that their number ...
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... choir . Only the crossing is rib - vaulted . The capitals are French transplants , close to those at Laon and Paris . As there was to be no stained glass , there was no need for the refinements of the Early Gothic . In the independent ...
... choir . Only the crossing is rib - vaulted . The capitals are French transplants , close to those at Laon and Paris . As there was to be no stained glass , there was no need for the refinements of the Early Gothic . In the independent ...
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... CHOIR SCREEN . A partition of wood or stone , often elaborately carved , that separates the CHOIR from the NAVE and TRANSEPT of a church . In Byzantine churches , the choir screen , decorated with ICONS , is called an ICONOSTASIS ...
... CHOIR SCREEN . A partition of wood or stone , often elaborately carved , that separates the CHOIR from the NAVE and TRANSEPT of a church . In Byzantine churches , the choir screen , decorated with ICONS , is called an ICONOSTASIS ...
Contents
FOREWORD PAGE | 11 |
Paleolithic Art Old Stone Age 30000 | 26 |
Neolithic Art New Stone Age 8000 | 32 |
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Abbey Church Acropolis ancient angels appear apse arcade Archaeological Museum Archaic arches architect architecture artists Athens B.C. Marble barrel vaults basilica beautiful bronze building built buttresses Byzantine capitals Carolingian carved Çatal Hüyük Cathedral Cathedral of Chartres central century B.C. Chapel choir Christ Classical clerestory colonnade colonnettes color colorplate columns Corinthian decorated dome Doric drapery dynasty earliest Early Christian Egypt Egyptian emperor Empire Etruscan façade figures France frescoes frieze gold Gothic Greek groin vaults Hagia Sophia head height Hellenistic Illumination imperial interior Italian Italy king later light limestone Mesopotamia Middle Ages Minoan mosaics Mosque Museo Mycenae nave original ornament Ottonian painter palace panel pediment period piers portal pose Reims relief Renaissance Roman Romanesque Rome roof Saint Saqqara scenes sculpture shapes shows side aisles space statues stone structure style surface Temple tion tomb towers tracery tradition Trajan transept vase wall paintings westwork Zeus