A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 50
s reduced insize and importance to make room for larger windows in the clearstory: it became amere survival in the shape of a blind wall arcade, and soon disappeared altogether. TYMPANUM, the space between the horizontal lintel of a door and the arch above(see Arch); also between the heads of… … Fig. 50. Norman Interior with Zig-zag and Beak-heads VAULTING, see App. i\ VESICA PISCIS (Bladder of a fish or a fish-shaped bladder), a kind of aureole orglory, surrounding a figure of one of the Persons of the Trinity, or of the Virgin. Itis in shape like a double-convex lens or a flat fish. Its…
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