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pendentive. See dome.

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	Soane's time and space. (building plans by architect John Soane) Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 2/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...work on the Antique principles of supporting the lantern on pendentives that carry the loads to arches that are themselves based...thrusts on the piers imposed by the vaults and arches. The pendentives and the annulus under the lantern are made in hollow terracotta...
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	Domes.(Book review) Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...concrete of the Pantheon. He then illustrates the shallow (and therefore tension-free) Byzantine domes, the use of pendentives to fit a round dome on a square building, Islamic domes and their use of ribs and muqarnas, the ribbed vaults of the Gothic...
	Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858). Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...The first ruler, Babur (r. 1526-30), introduced Timurid forms, spatial concepts, symmetry, and the net covered pendentive as well as the walled garden, strategically placed near temporary campsites. Mosques and hammams too were constructed...
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	Curio Magazine article from: Indiana Review; 7/1/2007; ; 517 words ; Six A.M., and already Pilate washes his hands, pendentive like the stems of tomatoes after the fruit is gone. And in the wide gold-leaf border that frames the scene in L'Heures de...
	Basilica aglow with 83,000 square feet of mosaics Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/24/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...color. The New Cathedral's mosaics cover 83,000 square feet, from the barrel vault ceiling of the narthex, to the pendentives above columns, to the side chapels flanking the main altar. The mosaic's styles vary wildly. The central dome features...
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