The sculpture upon the archivolt is also deserving of observation: upon one of the central stones, is represented the bannered lamb; upon the other, a figure, probably intended for a representation of our Savior entering Jerusalem upon an ass.
The detached moulding on the same plate, is copied from the archivolt of one of these arches: the style of its ornament is altogether peculiar.
There was to be an archivolt over it, but if it was erected it must have fallen in the earthquake of 1348, as there are no traces of it.
The spaces on either side of the archivolt are covered with tiles which represent a landscape.
The space which forms the outer archivolt is most remarkable.
Its front to the west exhibits a row of three semi-circular arches, with an ornament on the archivolt altogether different from what I recollect to have seen elsewhere[5].
A pediment between them rests on the archivolt on either side.
I mentioned the western entrance of the cloister as being very large: it is a double doorway with niches for six statues in either jamb, and the orders of the archivolt are alternately of mouldings and niches for figures.
The orders of the archivolt are filled with figures, some representing the resurrection of the dead, and others figures of kings and saints worshipping the central figure of our Lord.
This has a figure of our Lord seated within a vesica, supported by angels, and the archivolt has figures of saints with books.
On the sides the archivolt has on the left the Resurrection, and the happiness of the blessed, who are all represented in pairs; and on the right, the tortures of the damned, full of terror and horror of every kind.
Angels in the archivolt bear a scroll on which is inscribed--"Quæ est ista que ascendit de deserto deliciis affluens, innixa super dilectum suum?
My illustration will explain its design, one member of the archivolt of which is like a succession of curled pieces of wood put side by side and perfectly square in section.
The archivolt has a series of eight figures carved on key-stones at its intersection.
The outer order of thearchivolt has angels all round it, with crowns and sceptres in their hands.
The capitals are well carved, and the jambs of the door and one of the members of the archivolt have simple rose ornaments at intervals.
The archivolt is perhaps the most striking feature in the whole work, having sitting figures of the four-and-twenty elders arranged around its circumference, in a manner at once quite original and singularly effective.
The carving of thearchivolt is rich, mainly of foliage, but with two or three figures under niches introduced capriciously in its midst.
The meaning of the sculpture in the archivolt was not clear to me, and seemed to refer to some legend.
If they employed voussoirs, they were not content with ordinary depth, shown by the archivolt mouldings, but made them three or four times as deep.
Austria, as the Latin inscription under the archivolt beneath tells.
On the under surface of the main archivolt are fourteen most beautiful carvings, representing the chief guilds and crafts of Venice.
The main portal is spanned by an inner triple archivolt and an outer main one.
On the outer face of the archivolt are represented the Beatitudes and the Virtues, eight on either side of the keystone, which symbolises Constancy.
But Nicolo Lamberti, a Tuscan sculptor, worked on the decorations of the main archivolt of St Mark's, Florentine artists carved some of the best figures and capitals in the facades of the Ducal Palace, and wrought one of the finest tombs in S.
They are carried on coupled shafts which, as well as their capital, are of red Veronese marble, the archivolt being of stone.
Place calls portes ornées, this ornamental archivolt is of enamelled bricks, in the subordinate entrances it is distinguished from the rest of the wall merely by its salience.
No explorer has found anything in the remains of a Chaldæan city that can be compared to the archivolt of enamelled bricks discovered by M.
Return round the angle of an archivoltin one of the gates of Dour-Saryoukin; compiled from Place.
Upon the curve of the archivolt smaller figures face one another in couples; each couple is divided from its neighbours by rosettes (Fig.
The bricks forming the enamelled archivolt of which we have spoken are attached to the wall with a mortar in which there is but little adhesive power.
The compartments on either side are finished off by horizontal mouldings taken across somewhat below the level of the springing of the archivolt of the main window, and have flanking turrets covered with plain pinnacles.
That archivolt is in its earliest conditions perfectly pure and undecorated,--the simplest and rudest of Gothic forms.
I am more at a loss to account for the sudden and fixed development of this type of archivolt than for any other architectural transition with which I am acquainted.
This is actually the case in the later Gothic of Verona; the outer line of the archivolt having a hardly perceptible point, and every inner arch of course forming the point more distinctly, till the innermost becomes a lancet.
We have traced the various conditions of treatment in the archivolt alone; but, except in what has been said of the peculiar expression of the voussoirs, we might throughout have spoken in the same terms of the jamb.
This, then, will be the first great head under which we shall in future find it convenient to arrange a large number of archivolt decorations.
The archivolt rests on the right on a stone carved with a human head, while disappearing on the left into the masonry of the nave.
The archivolt topping the semi-circular arch rests on a granite stone carved with a human head.
Its archivolt rests at each end on a granite stone carved with a human head.
The arch is surrounded by an archivolt formed by a thick band with chamfered edges.
The archivolt is a thick band adorned with saw-teeth in high relief carved with a hollow row of triangular sticks.
The archivolt is a prominent band adorned with saw-teeth in high relief carved with a hollow row of triangular sticks.
The outer grain and archivolt disappear into the masonry of the nave to the left, whereas they rest on a slightly prominent and chamfered large stone on the right.
The archivolt is seven-fold and is an excellent piece of rich carving.
The centre one alone has a door to admit into the interior, it is double and surrounded by figures in the archivolt with reliefs in the tympanum.
The southernmost archivolt ends against a quarter-column, beyond which space is provided for the entrance of a stair which leads down to a vaulted chamber below the level of the ground (Plate 28, Fig.
Reuther has observed,[18] the calotte is not ‘the segment of a pointed dome, but its curve in horizontal section springs sharply back from the face of the archivolt and flattens rapidly behind.
In the second order the breaking up of the zone into registers is still adhered to, but since an archivolt has taken the place of the architrave of Ctesiphon, the principle is not so strongly marked.
In the side doors the archivolt cuts into the line of the oversailing vault which is carried over them.
The second great distinction is the systematic use of the archivolt at Ctesiphon for all the secondary intercolumniations in the wings.
The recesses are covered by a calotte, and round the archivolt is placed a stucco decoration consisting of seven cusps (Plate 21, Fig.
The door of the east corridor is set in a niche surmounted by a shallow calotte, of which the archivolt is slightly pointed.
The archivolt is outlined by a moulding which is carried up continuously round the rectangular frame.
This scheme of archivolt and rectangular frame with a continuous moulding is common in Syria and Mesopotamia.
Above the squinch and calottes there is a band of four isolated crenellations, the same motive which appears on the archivolt over the doors of corridors 5 and 6.
They do not carry an arch over the archivolt of the door.
It is perhaps not without importance to observe that the same change from architrave to archivolt took place, though at a rather later date, in the stone-building regions of western Asia.
A saint holding a small cross; below, in the south wall, the archivolt with the epitaph to Tornikes above it.
The Archivolton the North Wall of the Parecclesion.
Let the reader look back to the archivolt I have already given out of the streets of London (Plate XIII.
I believe the man who designed and the men who delighted in that archivolt to have been wise, happy, and holy.
In the nave the new vaulting has the wall-ribs properly supported by light shafts in the angles of the clerestory openings, whilst in the transepts the inner archivolt of the windows answers the same purpose.
In its perfect state this fine specimen of late Norman work is known to have consisted of three orders of shafts (banded) in the jambs, with moulded bases and sculptured capitals, the bold archivolt also displaying three orders.
This gate was still surmounted by its semicircular arch decorated with an archivolt in enamelled bricks.
Portion of an enamelled archivolt at Khorsabad (after V.
Place found nearly all the bricks of the archivolt of a door.
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