Modern mosaics illustrating the Book of Revelation, the Last Judgment, Hell and Paradise, cover the vaultings beyond the W.
Five mosaics in the three lunettes under the cupola tell the story of Cain and Abel, and under the vaultings between the first cupola and the central vestibule is the story of Noah.
On thevaultings of the transepts are represented the parables and miracles of Christ.
On the vaultingsand the walls of the aisles are stories of the martyrdom of the Apostles.
Groin and barrel vaultings covered side aisles and central vessel; and the transverse arches which braced the vaulting were often pointed, since it was found that such an arch exerted less side thrust.
The English claim is practically a Norman one, and Normandy's experimental work in Gothic vaultings remains to be traced.
Their device was the Nef, or ship, which is and has been throughout the ages, the arms of Paris, and which to this day may be seen carved on the vaultings of the Roman baths.
After the vaultings have been polished, set the impost mouldings directly beneath them.
Then get the scaffolding ready, and proceed to construct the vaultings in the rooms, unless they are to be decorated with flat coffered ceilings.
Having thus set the vaultings in their places and interwoven them, apply the rendering coat to their lower surface; then lay on the sand mortar, and afterwards polish it off with the powdered marble.
These vaultings caused Gabriel a strange impression; no one could guess the existence of such a place in the upper regions of the building.
A single ray burnt and blazed like a halo about the rider's casque, and his spear-point flickered like a star beneath the vaultings of the trees.
The Tholonida agree in this point with the Larnacida, but are distinguished from them by the prominent vaultings of the hemispherical cupolas or domes, which give them a peculiar appearance.
Their device was the Nef, or ship, which is and has been throughout the ages the arms of Paris, and which to this day may be seen carved on the vaultings of the Roman baths.
The plunderings of the Abbe Remy d'Orbais, and later the wars of the Armagnacs and the Burgundians, interrupted the work, and it was not until about the end of the fifteenth century that the vaultings and the tiles were put in place.
Experts were appointed to examine the condition of the vaultingsand declared it to be excellent.
The opposing parties again brought forward their liturgical arguments, and added that the sum asked for the decoration of the choir would be better employed if used to reconstruct the vaultings which threatened to collapse.
It is a long, tall edifice, of the same width throughout, lighted by high windows of even size, and ceiled by graceful groups of fan vaultings of the most exquisite type.
The afterglow of an orange and crimson sunset touched the folds of them, ranged upward to the vaultings of the frescoed ceiling, and stained the lofty walls as with the glare of a furnace.
In common with all those of the entresol, it was noticeably low in relation to its length and width, while the stunted vaultings of its darkly-frescoed ceiling produced an impression of heaviness rather than of space.
A pleasing feature of the design is the bold rounded arch which spans the porch from one wall to the other, and envelops the three lesser vaultings and their marble columns within a broad band of unsculptured stone.
The dome-shaped vaultings of the Soghanlu Dagh near some of the sources of the Kars river are almost entirely shorn of their considerable stature by the height of the adjacent downs.
Five massive and isolated pillars, of which originally there were six, [356] are seen rising from the floor of the chamber and supporting the vaultings of the roof.
These contrast to the soft convexities of the forms about you and the vaultings of the volcanic eminences.
In the centre is a well; the roof rested on four piers and sprang fromvaultings at each angle of the square.
The piers and vaultings still remain, but the roof is gone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vaultings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
