How To Use Spandrel In A Sentence
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The plinths below the columns, the arch spandrels, friezes and entablatures were enriched with carved ornament and sculpture.
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The new tower appears in Bayard's photograph of 1851, yet Ruskin's spandrel is just visible - still unscathed.
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Whereupon, a spandrel skirrs, having put the ‘maze’ in paronomasia.
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The spaces are called spandrels - or pendentives, but the more general architectural term is spandrels.
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Gould and Lewontin argued that many of the characteristics of organisms are what they called "spandrels", not adaptations.
Ancient Predator Revealed!
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Under the main dome, for example, there are four evangelists in the spandrels.
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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.
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Relief panels containing scenes from the Childhood of Christ filled the triangular spandrels between the gables dominating the screen's facade.
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Around the thirteenth-century north and south choir aisles, the spandrels of the blank arcading have many Green Beasts, including the one shown here.
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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.
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About 1,100 glass panels, including windows and spandrels, were blown out.
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Christ in glory, surrounded by a _mandorla_, with angels on either side; and in the spandrel on the right, a group of sixteen prophets, seated pyramidally against a blaze of gold background.
Luca Signorelli
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Langley's two doorways have four centred arches enclosed beneath a square label moulding, with shields bearing the Cardinal's coat-of-arms in each spandrel.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
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Brick-clad columns and spandrel beams frame large, recessed storefront windows whose glazing is subdivided with elaborate mullion patterns.
Georgetown's 'Social Safeway' is a monument to changing supermarket architecture
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What is most significant is that he made small arches on the main arch. ? He really deserves to be called the pioneer of open spandrel design.
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Divided by sub-arcuation into three lights, surmounted by circles of quatrefoil tracery in the spandrels of the arches, and supported by composite shafts, with moulded bases and foliated capitals, this elegant window had been allowed to drop into a ruin.
Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See
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Gould and Lewontin later garbled the argument to discredit any hypothesis that any trait is an adaptation: they hid the operation of natural selection behind evasive verbiage about "co-opting" and "reusing" spandrels which never identifies the co-opter or reuser.
'The Blank Slate': An Exchange
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The building service core is a solid, while transparency is achieved through variations in a curtain wall composed of vision, spandrel, and fritted glass.
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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.
