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Zakomara (Russian: Закомара) is a
semicircular or
keeled completion of a wall (curtain wall) in the Old
Russian architecture,
reproducing the adjacent...
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Russian architecture, a type of
corbel zakomara (that is an arch-like
semicircular top of the
church wall).
Unlike zakomara that
continues the
curvature of the...
- "kokoshniks" (semicircular
vaults with a
protruding sharp middle) and "
zakomara" (semicircular
protruding end of the
outer section of the wall).[citation...
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typical for Godunov's reign, has a
single dome
crowning three tiers of
zakomara. In the 1670s, they
added two
symmetrical annexes, and a
refectory leading...
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iconostasis of the
chapel in the
crypt of the ****umption Cathedral,
painted the
zakomaras, made the gate
image of the
Venerable Sergius and
Nikon of Radonezh, and...
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repeat the ogee-shaped
kokoshniks that
remind one of the cathedral's
zakomaras.
Other features borrowed from the ****umption
Cathedral are the pointed...
- one apse a
dynamic vertical silhouette. To
further emphasize it, the
zakomaras, Brovka [ru] and
Kokoshniks are
styled in long
vertical shapes, while...
- with the one in the
middle larger than the others. Each bay
contains a
zakomara at the top. They are also
separated at mid-level by a
horizontal arcade...
- by
pairs of semi-columns,
covered by a
crowning cornice, and ends with
zakomaras. The
corners of the
auxiliary volumes are
accentuated by
pairs of semi-columns...
- The
system of
vault roofing features three semicircular wall
gables (
zakomara)
which hark back to the pre-Mongol period. The
pillars are
square rather...
