pendentives

Where the dome rests upon the four arches which support it, are four triangular corner-pieces called pendentives, which also belong to

Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation 1489-1534 [Illustrator] Correggio 1893

But the Modigliani arches and pendentives had been completely repurposed by another civilization entirely, one with smaller, saner dreams.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005

The High Temple's great dome mounted on pendentives was a wonder of the world.

Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

- Roofs: mixed system of terrace roofs, using compressed earth block vaulting and reinforced concrete girders, and compressed earth block cupolas (at the four corners of the building) on pendentives.

Chapter 7 1995

Lighting combines artificial lighting, with spotlights placed under the vaulting and at the springpoint corbels of the pendentives of each of the cupolas, with natural light from the interior patio.

Chapter 7 1995

The four pendentives which supported the dome contained emblematic pictures representing the four States most benefited by the

New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission DeLancey M. Ellis

Something similar occurs in the Byzantine dome on pendentives, only instead of supporting the horizontal weight of

The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

Below the angels with their outstretched arms in the pendentives the western sides of the great transverse arches have inscriptions from the _Benedicite_, and on their eastern from Romans i.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock

Mosaics line the arches of the nave and the pendentives, and form the flooring; and in the midst of this richness of colour the grey pillars rise, one after the other in long, shadowy perspective, like the trees of a stately grove.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

By him are likewise the frescoes in the eight compartments of the cupola; those in the pendentives are by B.  Gatti.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black