#transept

[illustratus]

Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr phot with the most hits: the north transept, Chartres cathedral - a flamboyant exercise in medieval gothic.

[eopederson]

Entrada lateral a la Catedral, Santiago de Compostela, 2012.

Incorporated into the fabric surrounding the south entrance are many sculptural elements from the older cathedral. A veritable history of medieval stone work is included, and a student of sculpture could spend many hours examining the various bits in the assemblage.

[rabbitcruiser]

Saint Mary's Cathedral, Lugo (No. 4)

The cathedral has a Latin cross plan with three naves, transept and ambulatory with five apsidal chapels.

The main nave is covered with a pointed barrel vault and the sides with a barrel and edge vault, with ribs in the transept, and a barrel vault with lunettes in the clerestory. The clerestory windows are of acute arch or pointed to the interior and exterior.

To the left of the entrance to the cathedral is the Old Tower, Gothic, topped by a body of Renaissance bells, the work of Gaspar de Arce in 1571.

In the Plaza de Santa María, at the head of the cathedral, there is a cruise of unknown date, in the section that goes between the bell tower and the chapel of the Virgen de los Ojos Grandes.

The vertical walls and vault of the nave of the transept are Romanesque, as are most of the main nave, lateral and clerestory, whose vaults were remade in the eighteenth century.

The first body of the main chapel and the ambulatory with its attached apsidal chapels (1320-1360), except for the central one, belong to the Gothic, as well as the old ones of Santo Domingo de los Reyes (1370) and San Froilán (1480), which currently form the call of the Pilar, in addition to the first body of the bell tower (around 1570 or before) and the narthex or north portico (1510-1530), Not so the cover.

The second body of the main chapel and the current chapel of San Froilán are Renaissance; to the Baroque belong the sacristy (1678), the chapter house and its surroundings (1683), the cloister (1714) and the central chapel of the ambulatory, called the Ojos Grandes (1726).

The main façade, on the other hand, corresponds to a project in neoclassicist style of the late eighteenth century, whose author was Julián Sánchez Bort. This project moves in the orbit of what Ventura Rodríguez proposed for the façade of the cathedral of Pamplona, which in turn includes the turreted church scheme proposed by Serlio. The completion of the façade took place in the late nineteenth century, with the finishing of the two towers. These correspond to a design by Nemesio Cobreros inspired by the original project of Sánchez Bort.

Source: Wikipedia

[stevebowbrick]

[rh35211]

Seventeen Cool Facts About The Number 17 - Facts.net

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The French word for 17 is “dix-sept”, which means “ten-seven”.

Like many other languages, French has its own unique system for counting and numbering. The word for 17 in French is “dix-sept”, which literally means “ten-seven”. This unusual phrasing adds a bit of character to the number 17 and makes it stand out from other numbers in the French language.

The 17th letter of the alphabet is “Q”.

The English alphabet consists of 26 letters, and the 17th letter in the sequence is “Q”. This letter is often used in words related to queens, questions, and quizzes. In addition, the letter “Q” is a valuable tile due to its relatively high point value in Scrabble and other word games

[arekmiodek]

Sklepienie transeptu w świątyni na terenie ruin średniowiecznego miasta, które kryją wspaniałe zabytki architektury kościelnej i obronnej. Ani w Turcji (fot. Arkadiusz Miodek)

[borgevino]

i simply think it would be fun & interesting to write or read a book where you've got some guys having problems in the foreground (as is typical), and some absolutely wild shit occurring in the background. you can tell the background stuff is more important in the long run, but the foreground guys will not STOP having problems (unrelated to the background). so you have to do the reader's equivalent of straining your neck and leaning in weird ways to peer around the foreground guys...

[shrips]

the time I built the entire kiersau abbey in TS4 bc I’m normal

[wandixx]

Le me, reading "The Last King of Poland", a literal, freacking biography:

With all due respect, mister Adam Zamoyski, how dare you?! How freaking dare you?!

I know history, I know it will end with disaster. How dare you make Stanislaus Poniatowski (last king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) and Catherine the Great (empress of Russia) (both would get these positions some time later btw) like cross between high-school sweethearts and star-crossed (ba dum pss) lovers. We both know it destroyed the country (not only that and the country was in pretty bad shape beforehand too, but still). It caused wars. I have romanticism and patriotic "fight for the fatherland even if you're guaranteed to loose bullshit shoved down my throat to this day because of shit that went down kinda because of them.

And you still make me actually sad when you wrote "When on 14 august 1758 he left Petersburg, he didn't suspect that next time he'll see Catherine will be thirty years later"

You can't make it look like Stanislaus is the first nice thing that happened to Catherine since she arrived to Petersburg. You can't describe them as soulmates, as two (and Stanislaus' second father figure) against the world. You can't say that he was reluctant to... do the thing with her, even speak with her because she seemed cold and later because she was wife of the future, kinda aggressive emperor and sleeping with her was easy way ticket to Siberia and Siberia is what Australia was to British Empire but really freaking cold. You can't then quote how after first time they spent night together Stanislaus wrote "In that moment I forgot that Siberia exist in this world"

You can't write about how distraught they were when they were apart for few months. You can write how they tried to tip toe around because politics. You can't add tension when they were found out and then have her husband (Paul, I think, I don't care about him enough to check) do one nice thing when Stanislaus confessed and Paul just... woke her up in the middle of the night, put her in front of Stanislaus and went "Well, I hope everyone is happy now"

You can't do all of that and expect me to not get invested. And I wasn't even that huge shipper of historical figures before, like c'mon.

And then they turn toxic.

How could you...

[inkbee]

Reading about medieval architecture so I can make the sparkledog oc equivalent of a convent

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the south transept of St John Lateran, Rome.

[sea-glass-and-fire]

got a little too into an escapist daydream scenario and started imagining the abandoned gothic hall it would take place in and now i can't sleep because i'm too into the speculative architecture of this neo gothic revival world i've created.

[rabbitcruiser]

Saint Mary's Cathedral, Lugo (No. 7)

This chapel dates from the eighteenth century and is the work of Fernando de Casas Novoa. Bishop Santa María Salazar laid its first stone on December 7, 1726. The altarpiece, one of the best works of Galician Baroque, was made by the sculptor Miguel de Romay. The image of the Virgin was canonically crowned on August 15, 1904 and was awarded the Gold Medal of the City on August 15, 1954. The author of the carving, made of polychrome stone, is unknown. Some experts place it chronologically in the twelfth century, although others postpone its invoice to the fifteenth.

The Virgen de los Ojos Grandes is the patron saint of the city of Lugo and the cathedral is consecrated to her name. His feast day is August 15. Alfonso X the Wise dedicated his song LXXVII to her, in which he describes the healing of a woman who asked the Virgin for health, which she recovered in the cathedral of Lugo, at the feet of the Virgin.

The chapel of San Froilán is of Renaissance style, from the seventeenth century. The image of the saint, carved in wood, is the work of Francisco de Moure. At the head there is a tomb, known as Santa Froila (mother of San Froilán); the tomb is from the ninth century and the tomb from the twelfth, but it is not known if the recipient is Santa Froila or Bishop Odoario.

San Froilán is the patron saint of the city of Lugo. He was born in the suburbs of Lugo in 833. His feast day is celebrated on October 5. According to legend, the saint introduced burning embers into his mouth to accept the divine judgment to follow for his vocation: that of hermit or that of preacher.

Source: Wikipedia  

[vox-anglosphere]

Westminster Abbey's mediaeval grandeur after a gentle snowfall