Exedra
Exedra An exedra adopted by James Cameron for a neoclassical ... space, at the Hermitage In architecture an exedra is a semicircular recess, headed by a ... suitable place for a philosophical conversation. An exedra may also be expressed by a curved ... circular seat. A classic example of an exedra on a (comparatively) reduced scale within ...
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Exedra   (translated from German)
Exedra In that Archaeologie the term designates Exedra a semicircular, oval free area or to ... Tempeln and sardischen Giant graves. Actually the Exedra is a semicircular Architekturelement ; a cure fourth ... niche arrangement by right parallelepipeds transverseposed. Under Exedra (lat.) one understood in that antique a ... Forum faced. Since that fruehchristlichen time means "Exedra" also a increased Altarnische one Kirchengebaeudes , ...
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Dromos (passage)   (translated from German)
... Dromos only a modified (verschlankte) form that Exedra represents, on the British islands and in ... Cippi. On Sardinien there is both the Exedra and the Dromos. The latter is to ...
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Cortile del Belvedere
... The whole scenography climaxed in the hemicircular exedra of the Belvedere, a screening wall devised ... IV in 1562–65. Pirro took the great exedra at the center of Bramante's Belvedere ...
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Villa Doria Pamphili
... rusticated grotto in the form of an exedra, from which sculptured figures emerge from the rockwork. The exedra, now grassed, formerly enframed a Fountain of ...
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Imperial forums
... apsidal hall that opened up like an exedra at the bottom of the portico. A ... the emperor, was built leaning on the exedra of the Forum of Augustus, so that ...
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Hall of State
... of the Hall of State The curved exedra at the entrance of the Hall of ... the heroes of Texas history. The curved exedra at the entrance to the Hall of ...
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Apse
... epithet "apsidal" may be applied to the exedra of classical architecture, a feature of the ... even at the ends of transepts. An exedra or apse may be reduced in scale ...
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Dome
... half-dome forms the head of an exedra or its smaller version, a niche. In Late Antiquity, the exedra developed into the apse, with separate developments ...
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Itálica   (translated from Spanish)
... emphasize the following ones: House of the Exedra: It contains Spas and one long arena ... ruins of the vault that covered great exedra. Its central patio, where it was a ...
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