Firm plain profiles for archivolts and window molds were preferred.
The outer side aisles were suppressed, the archivolts were doubled, the bays widened, and the old columns replaced by compound piers.
Toward the western end of the church the molds of the archivolts die off in the piers.
There is a slight bending out, like a horseshoe, of the archivolts of the pier arcade, which archivolts are severely plain.
The archivolts are bold, but quite plain, and square in section.
Statues are set on corbels round the detached shafts, and again in the jambs of all the doorways, and the tympana and archivolts of the latter are everywhere crowded with sculpture.
Their shafts and archivolts are very richly twisted and carved, and the cusping of the inner arch is of a rare kind.
From this fragment of the chevet, it seems that the eastern chapel was surrounded with a deeply recessed arcading, within which were broad, round-arched windows with moulded archivolts carried on shafts with sculptured capitals.
The archivolts of the great arches on each side of the octagonal court consist of architrave, frieze and cornice, copied from the arch of the propylaca at Baalbek or other Roman work.
All the churches are built in fine ashlar masonry, with moulded archivolts and architraves to doorways and windows, and moulded string courses and cornices of simple design.
There were numerous archivolts over the broad portal, and above these was a horizontal dog's-tooth moulding with grotesque heads at intervals; but time had effaced most of the carving.
If space permitted, nothing could be more delightful than to examine in detail these marvellous capitals and archivolts which Ruskin has so lovingly immortalized for English readers.
The archivolts are decorated with three fillets and a small oval motive is placed in the spandrels.
The fillets round the arches and round the rectangular windows must be compared with the fillets round the arched niches in room 32 and round the archivolts of squinch and niche at Chehâr Qapû.
The method employed in constructing the archivolts is admirably described by Dr.
Instead of the half-columns and piers of the ground floor, the archivolts of the first floor spring from a cluster of four small engaged columns which must have been finished in stucco.
The calotte archivolts at their highest point are 3·50 metres above the present level of the floor.
The arch-soffits, the archivolts or bands around the arches, and the spandrils between them were covered with minute and intricate incised carving.
The long perspectives of the aisles and the minute decoration of the archivolts and ceilings alone gave them architectural character.
These ornaments were also used on the archivoltsaround the great arches of palace gates.
The archivoltsof the arches are filled with figures which follow the curve in a rather uncomfortable style, not only here but in every other window save the fine classical of the facade.
On the archivoltsare angels, patriarchs, prophets, and kings.
On the archivolts are, to the right of the spectator, demons and damned souls and quaint personifications of death: to his left the heavenly host, choirs of angels, seated prophets and doctors and the army of martyrs.
His archivolts and the pendentives of his vaults always rest upon thick walls, and yet almost every variety of the simple arch or tunnel-vault are to be found among the ruins of his buildings.
In every building of which we possess either the remains or the figured representation the archivolts rest upon thick and solid walls.
The disappearance of the archivolts and the great heaps of débris are thus accounted for.
The archivolts are encircled by two rows of lozenged squares, indented in the stone.
The windows have no mouldings whatever, and the pillars and archivolts of the doors are very meagre.
The edges of the two great blank archivolts are felt to be painfully conspicuous; all the four are at once beaded or chamfered, as at b, Fig.
In the southern, are events from the life of the Virgin Mary; but the central one, and the archivolts surrounding it, contain the most spirited bits.
This appears in the figure ornamentation in the archivoltsaround the circular-headed opening, the angel heads that cut it as it were into cusps and the treatment and feeling of some of the figures in the larger panels.
Ancient Gothic tombs, their archivolts crowded with angels, pierce the interior walls, while the vaults themselves are most elaborately groined, the arches and vaulting being later filled with Renaissance bosses and rosettes.
In the archivolts angels ascend with instruments and spreading wings, embracing monks or gathering orphans into their bosoms, while the lost with horrid grimaces are descending to their inevitable doom.
But if the statues are interesting, the sculpture of the archivolts and the personages and scenes carved on the fields of the tympanums far surpass them.
The archivolts surrounding the tympanum are filled by a heavenly host of angels, all busied with celestial occupations, playing instruments, swinging censers, carrying candelabra, or flapping their wings.
The archivolts are simply crowded with small figures of angels, of saints, and of the unmistakably lost.
Similar in treatment to the southern door, the archivolts here are filled with a series of fine statues.
Here the caps are Byzantine in character, the archivolts flat inlays, with a billet mould on each side, and a carved string-course of running foliage inclosed between two lines of notched or billet mould.
Here the centre arch is very wide, has four stilted arches on the sides, the archivolts are all delicately carved, and small sculptured medallions are introduced in the spandrels.
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