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... transept - was erected at right angles to the nave between the nave and the apse ( fig . 322 ) . Before the transept came the so - called triumphal arch , a common feature of Early Christian basilicas . The altar , at the head of the ...
... transept - was erected at right angles to the nave between the nave and the apse ( fig . 322 ) . Before the transept came the so - called triumphal arch , a common feature of Early Christian basilicas . The altar , at the head of the ...
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... transept and the apse - like the ambulatory in a mar- tyrium - so that crowds of pilgrims could move along constantly and easily . ( Medieval sources tell us about the difficulty and danger of handling large crowds in the old basilicas ...
... transept and the apse - like the ambulatory in a mar- tyrium - so that crowds of pilgrims could move along constantly and easily . ( Medieval sources tell us about the difficulty and danger of handling large crowds in the old basilicas ...
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... transepts , and five large and two small towers . Only portions of one transept remain . The rest of the vast fabric was demol- ished by a group of real - estate speculators in the years following the French Revolution , and the stone ...
... transepts , and five large and two small towers . Only portions of one transept remain . The rest of the vast fabric was demol- ished by a group of real - estate speculators in the years following the French Revolution , and the stone ...
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