The spandril spaces are filled with dragon-like monsters on a green ground.
The very earlyspandril from Angers, below, if not markedly Romanesque in character is yet not of the distinctively Early Gothic type.
The left–hand spandril is filled in with a device of Catherine of Aragon formed by the Castle of Castile and the pomegranate of Granada: also a sheaf of arrows, the badge of her mother Isabella.
The right–hand spandril contains the portcullis, which was a badge of Henry VIII.
The Renaissance architects introduced spandril fillings composed of colossal human figures reclining on the sides of the arch, in precarious lassitude; but these cannot come under the head of wall veil decoration.
Radiated foliage, more or less referred to the centre, or to the bottom of the spandril for its origin; single figures with expanded wings often answering the same purpose.
The other modes of spandril filling may be broadly reduced to four heads.
One of these is the spandril space, or the filling between any two arches, commonly of the shape a, Fig.
One of the spandril decorations of Bayeux Cathedral is given in the "Seven Lamps," Plate VII.
The pattern which occupies the other spandril is similar, except that the field b c, instead of the intersecting arcs, has only triangles of grey marble, arranged like rays, with their bases towards the centre.
Every spandril of the lower arcade was intended to have been occupied by an ornament resembling the one given in that plate.
Trefoils; and 4, ordinary wall decoration continued into the spandril space, as in Plate XIII.
I have given a most singular instance both of rude execution and defied symmetry, in the little pillar and spandril from a panel decoration under the pulpit of St. Mark's at Venice.
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