- Look up
tympanum or
timpanum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Tympanum may
refer to:
Tympanum (architecture), an
architectural element located within...
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While tympanums are
inspired by the
shape and
placement of pediments,
classical pediments more
closely transformed into rose
windows than
tympanums. And...
- The
tympanum is an
external hearing structure in
animals such as mammals, birds, some reptiles, some
amphibians and some insects.
Using sound, vertebrates...
- A
tympanal organ (or
tympanic organ) is a
hearing organ in insects,
consisting of a
tympanal membrane (
tympanum)
stretched across a
frame backed by an...
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built using hewn
Icelandic dolerite from 1880 to 1881. The
reliefs on the
tympanums of the four
outermost windows on the
first floor represent the four landvættir...
- The
round window is one of the two
openings from the
middle ear into the
inner ear. It is
sealed by the
secondary tympanic membrane (round
window membrane)...
- Look up
tympanum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In
ancient Greece and Rome, the
tympanon (τύμπανον) or
tympanum, was a type of
frame drum or tambourine...
- The
Larnaca Tympanum is a
medieval sculpture in
white marble found at
Larnaca in
Cyprus in the
nineteenth century. It is now in the
collection of the V&A...
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Cathedral of
Saint Lazare at Autun,
France –
consisting of
numerous doorways,
tympanums and
capitals –
represents some of the most
original work of the period...
- few
survive today.[citation needed] In an
invention of the period, the
tympanums of
important church portals were
carved with
monumental schemes, often...
