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Перевод: apse

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апсида [архит.]

Тезаурус:

1. Opposite it the passage was separated from the body of the church by a ten foot long grille in delicate wrought iron which gave a view up the nave to the cavernous glitter of the apse and the Lady Chapel on the right.
2. Going around behind the apse of the Duomo the visitor passes the Palazzo dell'Orologio, named after the clock at the top, which is flanked by statues of night and day.
3. The newly published Annual Report on last season's excavations by the British School at Rome at San Vincenzo al Volturno, Molise, in Central Italy, gives details of the remains of the apse of the ninth-century Carolingian abbey church of San Vincenzo Maggiore, proving the church to be the largest of its date south of the Alps.
4. At the corner of the apse is a memorial tablet to the consecration of the Duomo by San Carlo Borromeo on 20 October 1577.
5. The apse is widely believed to represent the peak of Gothic architecture in Italy and was completed at a time when many of the architects working on the project had been brought in from Germany.
6. From the outside it is difficult to know whether to curse Bramante's decision to demolish the original church - apart from the internal apse structure and the (later) campanile, - or to marvel at the soaring lines.
7. To walk the length of a great basilica from porch to apse was to make the journey of salvation and find oneself in "a place of perfection, the heavenly Jerusalem, its walls and buildings made in heaven, transferred to this spot".
8. This tiny hamlet, which has less than 100 inhabitants, was once a stopping-off-point on the pilgrim route and the church, though restored from a state of picturesque dilapidation early in this century, is still rough-and-ready twelfth-century, squat in shape and only about twenty yards long from doorway to apse.
9. But she was still slightly surprised when she found Father Barnes showing round groups of visitors, experts interested in Victorian architecture, who enthused over the baldachin, admired the Pre-Raphaelite paintings on the eight panels of the pulpit, or set up their tripods to photograph the apse, and who compared it, in confident, un-ecclesiastical tones (surely even experts ought to lower their voices in church) with the Cathedral of Torcello near Venice or with Blomfield's similar basilica at Jericho in Oxford.
10. He can now foresee the rapid completion of the work on Andrea Pozzo's frescoes in the apse of the church of S. Ignazio and the beginning of the project to conserve Baciccio's cupola decoration at the Ges.
11. Its pendant, "The descent from the Cross", will occupy the corresponding wall in the south transept, and the "Assumption of the Virgin" will be installed in the apse.
12. This is the most fortunate part of the exterior; matching it in strength, though not in detail, is the E apse, in beautiful close masonry blocks with three dignified round arched windows, but now nearly bereft of the machicolation that once crowned the tall buttresses.
13. The Hall of Columns has at its head a replica of the raza , wheel, of the Viscontis used as the central element of the largest of the apse windows.