A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 76
Pendentive, Fig. 21. Arches, simple or compouud, generally called-squinches. Pig. 21 is a common arch, whosesoffit is cylindrical. Fig. 22 shows a splayedarch, whose soffit is a cortical surface. Fig. 23,an arch whose soffit has an elliptical curve on oneface and a circular on the other, the ridge… … Pendentive, Fig. 34. Pendentive, Fig. 25. 1 i^xi^r^ 1 1 1 1 ^ 1 1 \/H 1 i H ^ 1 ^1 1 1 \ \ v^ IL rvJ Pendentive, Fig. 20. is from a tomb at Old Delhi, India. Fig. 26, segmental arches, with splayed or conical soffits. 94 PBNDENTIVB Ciiiiiijoiiinl tiinus: Fig. 27 is a idiiicjil, f:in-sliapetl vault,…
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