In the spandrils were tablets surrounded by festoons, scrolls, and other enrichments.
In the spandrils of the arches are figures of Victories, and of old in the tympanum we might have seen Theodoric on horseback.
Above in the spandrils of the arches are figures of apostles or saints.
Here is a rude sketch of its use of the crocket in the spandrils of its external tracery, and here are the waves of the Greek sea round the son of Poseidon.
The trefoiled heads are cut in the rail with the carved spandrils between.
These bear a pierced pattern and projecting triangles, serving as spandrils to the trefoiled arches, which are incised on the spaces between.
The spandrils are filled with Gothic leafage, the bases and caps to the columns are early Renaissance, and the frieze is quite plain, with a dentilled cornice.
In the spandrils above the arch are medallions surrounding the heads of St. Peter and of St. Paul, St. Peter being especially expressive.
Above in the spandrils are ribboned circles enclosing well-carved heads.
Reached by a picturesque stair on the south side, the three-centred arches each enclose two or three smaller round arches, with the spandrils merely pierced or sometimes cusped.
At the crossing, which is crowned by a square coffered dome, the spandrils are filled with curious winged heads, while the semi-dome of the apse is covered with narrow ribs.
On either side of this recess are round-headed niches containing saints, while boys sit in the spandrils above the arch.
In the tympanum is a beautiful Madonna and Child, and two round medallions with heads adorn the spandrils above the arch.
The spandrils of the arch are ornamented with branches of the vine, and in the midst are his arms and those of his first wife, and on each side are the arms of himself and his two wives.
The spandrils are coloured green and are embossed with shields and a splendid floral design.
In the spandrilsof the loggia are the medallions of infants in blue and white by Andrea della Robbia, reproductions of which hang on many a wall throughout the civilised world.
From the high altar the eye instinctively travels upwards to the spandrils in the drum of the dome where part of Correggio's grand frescoes are seen.
In the spandrils above the recess: two heads in medallions.
But the old wall arches of the dome-columns are still visible as arched piercings in the spandrils of the Turkish arches.
The north wall is a fine example of simple masonry in stripes of brick and stone, and with small archings and zigzag patterns in the spandrils of the arches.
The masonry is in stripes of brick and stone courses, with radiating joints to the arched niches and a zigzag pattern in the spandrils of the first-story arches.
In the Chora the arch spandrils and cornice are inlaid with scroll and geometrical designs in black, white, and coloured marbles.
The arches have radiating voussoirs, and the arch spandrils and the frieze under the cornice are inlaid with scroll and geometrical designs in black, white, and coloured marbles.
A rose also fills each of the four spandrils formed by the circular wreaths.
On the north side, next to the aisle, are some shields in the spandrils between the niches (Plate VI.
While the spandrilsof three or four doorways are carved with Renaissance detail, the doorways themselves are in other respects quite Gothic.
The spandrils at Cowdray are filled with carving; some of it is foliage, treated in the Late Gothic manner, but in one appears the head of a winged cherub, clearly not of English but Italian descent.
Such is the carving in the spandrils of doorways (Fig.
In the spandrils of the arch are circular medallions with busts, and in the parapet are the royal arms.
The general design is Gothic, and while the arabesque enrichments may have been added afterwards, and the spandrils of the flat-pointed door, the same can hardly be said of the corbels to the niches over it (Fig.
The arches over the tombs and the doorway in the wall are all flat-pointed, and the spandrils are filled with Renaissance carving, which, in the case of the large arches, surrounds the arms of the founder.
A peculiarity of the nave interior is a series of large corbels, which project from the spandrils of the triforium arcade, and the object of which was to enable a passage to be carried round the solid piers introduced between the windows.
Two circles occur in the spandrils over the arches, but they do not now contain heads.
These are of the form called drop arches, with crocketed ogee hood moulding, and have plain spandrils above, over which there runs a straight cornice, enriched with flowers and shells of all descriptions very beautifully carved.
The spandrils are beautifully adorned with stucco work of the trellis pattern.
The walls and spandrils are tastefully adorned with stucco work of the trellis pattern, tiling and mosaic.
Then follows the very early Gothic, like the delightful little spandrils in the chapter house at Salisbury, and at Westminster, familiar to all travellers.
Within the spandrils of the arches, just mentioned, are two highly curious bas-reliefs, figured here in the tenth plate, and marked A and B.
An architectural peculiarity deserving of notice in this front, lies in the triangular mouldings, observable in the spandrils of the arches of the clerestory.
It is scarcely necessary to mention, that the figures of saints placed upon brackets against the spandrils of the arches, are all modern.
The circles in the spandrilsare in the same oriental style as at Bayeux.
The stained glass and mural decorations in thespandrils of the arches of the apse are bad as bad can be.
In the spandrils are the cardinal virtues sculptured in relief, and corbels support statues.
The cloisters adjoining are surrounded with a light arcade, with enrichments in the spandrils and frieze, all in terra cotta.
The Rezzonico palace is much quieter in design, and finer in its proportions, but even there the cherubs in the spandrils are too pronounced in their relief.
In that pot-metal is used for the dark ruby of the outer dress, and for the little bits of blue rather cunningly let into the spandrils of the arch.
The ground of it is gold, the sculpture in the spandrils is not more than an inch and a half deep, rarely so much.
Medallions in the spandrils of the arches add to the rich effect.
The spandrils between the arches are recessed with well-carved figures of angels and archangels playing on musical instruments.
The inner spandrils are filled in by cross-ties and braces, and those of the outer ribs by ornamental cast ironwork.
The spandrils of the arches are lightened by longitudinal spandril-walls; the piers are also hollow, and the structure is throughout made as light as possible.
In the spandrils of the arch next the court are the arms of Dr.
This surface decoration is to be found in Westminster Abbey, but not in the same varied richness as on the walls and spandrils at Bayeux.
The spandrilsand tracery of the choir arches show examples of early plate tracery.
A depressed arch forms a canopy, in the spandrils of which are the abbot's initials R.
The entrance to this door consists of a depressed arch, with a square head over it; the spandrils are pierced with an open quatrefoil.
Its lower edge is foliated, and the spandrils are enriched with quatrefoils.
The north wall contains the remains of a trefoil-headed arcade of great beauty, the spandrils of which show richly carved foliage, the effect of which was further heightened by the application of colour.
These are of perpendicular work, with their spandrils panelled and their cornices battlemented, as shown in the engraving.
Above this again is a band of quatrefoils at the foot of the gable, which is filled with double couplets of lancets with quatrefoils above their heads; and in the upper spandrils is a quatrefoiled aureole.
In thespandrils of the flat arch of its canopy are armorial shields.
The spandrils are ornamented with very interesting carvings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spandrils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
