spandrel

How To Use spandrel In A Sentence

• The plinths below the columns, the arch spandrels, friezes and entablatures were enriched with carved ornament and sculpture.
• The new tower appears in Bayard's photograph of 1851, yet Ruskin's spandrel is just visible - still unscathed.
• Whereupon, a spandrel skirrs, having put the ‘maze’ in paronomasia.
• The spaces are called spandrels - or pendentives, but the more general architectural term is spandrels.
• Gould and Lewontin argued that many of the characteristics of organisms are what they called "spandrels", not adaptations. Ancient Predator Revealed!
• Under the main dome, for example, there are four evangelists in the spandrels.
• In the spandrel above Saint George sits Saint Augustine, who appears as a hermit dressed in the habit of the Eremitani (also known as the Austin friars), wearing a scapular, his bishop's miter resting at his feet.
• Relief panels containing scenes from the Childhood of Christ filled the triangular spandrels between the gables dominating the screen's facade.
• Around the thirteenth-century north and south choir aisles, the spandrels of the blank arcading have many Green Beasts, including the one shown here.
• On the rear wall is a kind of private chapel, a wall niche framed by pilasters and faced with spandrels with inlaid vegetal ornament, which shelters an altar.