-
creating a
stilted arch (also surmounted) and
horseshoe arch respectively.
These "shifts and dodges" were
immediately dropped once the
pointed arch with its...
- An
arch bridge is a
bridge with
abutments at each end
shaped as a
curved arch.
Arch bridges work by
transferring the
weight of the
bridge and its loads...
- ISBNÂ 9780199680276. "
Stilted Arch". The
electronic edition of Ruskin’s
Venetian Notebooks.
Lancaster University.
contains many
examples of the
stilted arch v t e...
- The
smaller arches at the
lower level are
stilted to
match the
wider arches on the left (St John's Chapel, London)
Stilted pointed arches at the Monreale...
- Reno, Nevada.
Outside the
bridge design the term
refers to
arches similar to the
stilted arches used in cathedrals. "Category 9 -
Highway Improvements on...
-
Romanesque construction. The
exterior decorations, as well as the use of
stilted arches, mark the
intended verticality of the composition. It was
declared a...
-
intersecting were not of the same span as
those of the main vault, the
arches were
either stilted so that
their soffits might be of the same height, or they formed...
-
effectively a
series of
arches placed side by side (i.e., one
after another). It is a form of
barrel roof. As with all
arch-based constructions, there...
- ground-floor
arches, the
elongated stilted arch,
characteristic of the Veneto-Byzantine
tradition in Venice, was
updated with
Renaissance semi-circular
arches, supported...
-
buttressed by
eight piers,
adorned with crockets,
supporting deeply stilted arches. The
joint tomb of King John I of
Portugal (d. 1433) and his wife Philippa...
