- A
tholobate (from
Ancient Gr**** θολοβάτης (
tholobátēs) 'dome pedestal'), also
called a drum or tambour, is the
upright part of a
building on
which a dome...
- arm has a window.
Additional five
windows of the
tholobate provide sufficient illumination. The
tholobate is
rather stumpy,
slightly narrowing in the upper...
- upside-down cup. The
cylindrical drum
underneath a
larger cupola is
called a
tholobate. The
cupola evolved during the
Renaissance from the
older oculus. Being...
-
ground or
raised aloft on
pendentives and
carrying a dome (also
known as a
tholobate), and to the drum-shaped
segments of a column,
which is
built up in several...
-
around them. The
original South Asian form is a
large solid dome
above a
tholobate, or drum, with
vertical sides,
which usually sits on a
square base. There...
-
resembles an onion. Such
domes are
often larger in
diameter than the
tholobate (drum) upon
which they sit, and
their height usually exceeds their width...
- The
space was
increased by
introduction of
pillars that now held the
tholobate,
which gave
possibility to
experiment with the
walls and
improved esthetic...
- the
round building may be
called a "rotunda".
Drums are also
called "
tholobates" and may or may not
contain windows. A "tambour" or "lantern" is the equivalent...
- churches. The
leading element of the building, the dome, has an 8-faceted
tholobate.
Under the dome, near the
center of the interior,
stands a postament,...
- is
covered with
azulejos and
inside it is
supported by a huge
circular tholobate.
There is also
another dome that
crowns one of the building's chapels...
