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	triforium triforium , in church architecture, an arcaded gallery above the arches of the nave. In the interiors of medieval churches each bay of the nave wall customarily had three divisions in its height—arcade, triforium, and clerestory. The triforium was thus located beneath the clerestory windows... Read more
	Mattia Preti Mattia Preti , 1613-99, Italian baroque painter, called Il Calabrese for his birthplace. Preti went to Rome c.1630 and studied with Lanfranco. His most dramatic works were the Caravaggesque paintings of his period in Naples (1656-60). His frescoes in the Valmontone Palace in Rome (1661) show a... Read more
	Fort Knox Fort Knox [for Henry Knox ], U.S. military reservation, 110,000 acres (44,515 hectares), Hardin and Meade counties, N Ky.; est. 1917 as a training camp in World War I. It became a permanent post in 1932. In the steel and concrete vaults of the U.S. Depository there, the bulk of the nation's gold... Read more
	Italian architecture Italian architecture the several styles employed in Italy after the Roman period. The Romanesque Italy's Romanesque architecture (12th cent.) reveals the first use of the groined vault with projecting ribs. It is also typified by the development of a type of basilica having side galleries.... Read more
	spandrel spandrel. Architectural term for the approximately triangular space between the outer curve of an arch and the rectangular frame enclosing the arch, or for the wall surface between two adjacent arches; more loosely the term is applied to any triangular area with curved sides, as in the series of... Read more
	Melozzo da Forli Melozzo da Forlì , 1438-94, Umbrian painter. His extant works, though few, reveal him as a painter of power and individuality. He is especially notable for his bold foreshortening, in the use of which, particularly in vaultings, he was a pioneer. His known works include the great fresco of... Read more
	vault vault ceiling over a room, formed in any one of a variety of curved shapes. Nature of Vaults A vault is generally composed of separate units of material, such as bricks, tiles, or blocks of stone, so shaped or cut that when assembled they form a tightly wedged and stable construction whose weight... Read more
	Men and Women Men and Women (1890), a play by David Belasco and Henry C. de Mille. [ Proctor's 23rd Street Theatre, 204 perf.] A panic brings the Jefferson National Bank to the brink of collapse, especially when bonds kept in its vault are discovered missing. Suspicion falls on young Edward Seabury ( Orrin ... Read more
	chapter house chapter house a building in which the chapter of the clergy meets. Its plan varies, the simplest being a rectangle. At Worcester, England, the Norman builders created a circular chapter house (c.1100), with vaulting springing from a central pillar. Subsequent examples, adopting this central support... Read more
	lunette lunette. 1. Portion of a vertical plane beneath a segmental or semicircular vault running into it, bounded by the intrados and springing-line. 2. Similar-shaped aperture bounded by an arch or vault, e.g. in a wall at the end of a barrel-vault or above a door set in an arched opening, possibly a... Read more