The angel figures of the pendentive are worthy of notice.
The angel figures of this pendentive are among the most beautiful and characteristic of the myriad throng of the cupola.
There is not much in the figure of our pendentive to suggest the stern and fearless prophet of the wilderness.
As in the pendentiveof St. John and St. Augustine, the angel figures add an element of beauty to the picture.
The pendentive of our illustration contains St. John with St. Augustine.
Very occasionally, also, the flat triangular pendentive is used, as in Notre Dame at Chauvigny (Vienne).
Roman Corinthian temple of the largest size, presents internally an almost Byzantine conception with the three pendentive domes that vault its vast nave, but all the details are Roman.
The pendentive dome, sustained by four or eight arches over a square or octagonal plan, is not found in true Roman buildings.
The true pendentive does not appear in these two churches.
The Arabic stalactite pendentive star-panelling and geometrical interlace are rarely if ever seen.
The cupola of the chancel rests on circular pendentivearches springing from four granite columns which stood formerly in the temple of Augustus.
The most remarkable part of the structure is the cupola, terminating in an octagonal lantern, and supported on pendentive arches.
Such a form ofpendentive is rarely seen in works of this age.
In these examples a pendentive is formed at each angle of the square, and thus the octagonal base is formed for the vault.
The pendentive under the dome is similar in its construction to those under the dome of the curious church of Ainay, at Lyons.
The last pendentive of the vaulting rests on a single shaft springing directly from a head-corbel.
There is foliage upon the capitals of these vaulting-shafts, and upon the capital and base of that which supports the last pendentive of the vaulting.
The westernmost pendentive on either side rests on a Perpendicular corbel carved with delicate foliage.
The lantern, which is octagon in plan, has three tiers of arches, the over-hanging sides being supported by a simple pendentive with very slight mouldings.
In the lantern, which is in the form of a cupola, each pendentive is terminated by the figure of a saint in its niche.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pendentive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
