Crossword-Solution: ARCHIVOLT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Archivolt | n. | The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening. |
| Archivolt | n. | More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged. |
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| ARCH, principal term connected with any form of | 12 answers |
| Curve | 60 answers |
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Sentences with ARCHIVOLT (5)
The balls in the archivolt project considerably, and the interstices between their interwoven bands of marble are filled with colors like the illuminations of a manuscript; violet, crimson, blue, gold, and green alternately: but no green is ever used without an intermixture of blue pieces in the mosaic, nor any blue without a little centre of pale green; sometimes only a single piece of glass a quarter of an inch square, so subtle was the feeling for color which was thus to be satisfied.
Let the reader look back to the archivolt I have already given out of the streets of London (Plate XIII.
There were once, it would seem, as on the royal porch of Notre Dame at Paris and the southern porch at Reims, the figures of the Synagogue and the Church; also Leah and Rachel, typifying the active and the contemplative life, of which we shall decipher the details recorded in the archivolt.
But even for the first decoration of the archivolt itself, they were probably indebted to the Greeks in a degree I never apprehended, until by pure happy chance, a friend gave me the clue to it just as I was writing the last pages of this lecture.
The compartments on either side are finished off by horizontal mouldings taken across somewhat below the level of the springing of the archivolt of the main window, and have flanking turrets covered with plain pinnacles.