Besides these figure subjects painted on the piers, the soffits of the arches were decorated with colour, some of which still remains.
In 1875 Mr. Chappie discovered wall-paintings between the clerestory windows, three on the north and one on the south; the soffits of the arches are also coloured.
For the lower portion is composed of three round-headed arches, the soffits of which are ornamented with round mouldings and zigzag work, and rest on columns with curious capitals formed of acanthus leaves from which grotesque heads peep out.
Italians were sent for from Milan to wash the grand old stone of Berchères a sickly yellow; the noble simplicity of the piers, capitals and soffits of the arches disappeared beneath a mess of stucco, gilding and sham marble.
The transition character of these is emphasised by the mouldings in the soffits being continuations of those in the side piers.
The soffits of the arches and the vault of the roof are richly decorated.
The vaults and soffits of the massive arches are covered with the armorial bearings of the former mayors of the town; while, to the left of the entrance, are still the stone-seats and tables where they sat in judgment.
The soffits of the arches and domes are covered with diaper mouldings, with rich friezes and dentils along the edges.
The soffits are ornamented with six-sided sculptured panels.
At the point where this cutting away occurs, fix the soffits of the passages.
We must also beware of the ancients' scheme for vaultings; for in their mouldings the soffits overhang very heavily, and are dangerous.
On the north the soffits of the arches retain the original stucco ornaments, all different; on the south they have disappeared.
All the vaults are semicircular in section, and those of the aisles[61] have their transverse surfaces continuous with the soffits of the nave arches.
The end-vestibules have curved roofs with highly ornamented ceilings of a succession of flat domes along the centres, with three rows of deep soffits on each side, gayly painted.
The soffits of the ceiling have panels of yellow with orange border, contrasting with iron beams painted a chocolate brown.
These arches are stilted and covered in an extremely rich manner with gorgeous mosaic, and their soffits inlaid with tesserae arranged in Moorish designs.
The sun is sculptured on the keystone of the arch, and in the soffits the months are illustrated by a series of reliefs of agricultural pursuits, as in S.
What gilding there is, is away up in the roof and on the bosses in the soffits of the arches, but it is old and not really obtrusive.
The soffits of all the windows, which are filled with thin slabs of alabaster, are adorned by a deep red, and a black and white pattern on a gold ground.
It was not merely that the shadowed portions were glazed in pot-metal, as when, at Santa Croce, the cofferedsoffits of the arches are one mosaic of jewellery, but that the canopy throughout was in colour.
The effect of distance is largely obtained by contrast with the strong shadow of the soffits and sides of the arch seen in perspective.
The soffitswill sometimes be seen with a thick incrustation of lime, which has washed out of the joints, or from limestone ballast above, where this has been in use.
The walls are incrusted with precious marbles up to the spring of the vaulting; the capitals, spandrils, and soffits are richly and minutely carved with incised ornament, and all the vaults covered with splendid mosaics.
The deep jambs and soffits of doors and pier-arches were moulded with a rich succession of hollow and convex members, and adorned with carvings of saints, apostles, martyrs, and angels.
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