In architecture, an apse (pl.: apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς, apsis, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis; pl.: apsides) is...
6 KB (526 words) - 12:12, 9 September 2024
Ada Programming Support Environment (redirect from APSE)
Ada Programming Support Environment or APSE, was a specification for a programming environment to support software development in the Ada programming language...
4 KB (437 words) - 18:42, 22 April 2024
Look up apse, apses, apsis, apside, apsides, or apsidal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The apse or apsis or apside (plural: apses or apsides) are...
1 KB (239 words) - 19:40, 22 February 2023
An apse chapel, apsidal chapel, or chevet is a chapel in traditional Christian church architecture, which radiates tangentially from one of the bays or...
4 KB (492 words) - 19:07, 2 June 2024
An apse line, or line of apsides, is an imaginary line defined by an orbit's eccentricity vector. It is strictly defined for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic...
1 KB (129 words) - 11:23, 4 October 2023
Jane Annabelle Apsion (born 17 September 1960 in Hammersmith, London) is an English actress best known for playing Monica Gallagher in the television comedy-drama...
14 KB (539 words) - 22:30, 27 October 2024
The Fuentidueña Apse is a Romanesque apse dated 1175–1200 that was built as part of the San Martín Church at Fuentidueña, province of Segovia, Castile...
10 KB (1,387 words) - 22:40, 20 September 2024
Apse (pronounced "apps") was an American rock band signed to the UK label ATP Recordings [1] and Spanish label Acuarela Discos. The band moved through...
8 KB (999 words) - 02:46, 6 February 2024
The Apse from La Seu d'Urgell is an apse exhibited at the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona. The decoration on this apse is a noteworthy sample...
4 KB (376 words) - 01:30, 7 April 2024
Apse Heath is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight, UK. Apse Heath is centered on the intersection of Newport Road and Alverstone Road. At the 2011 Census the...
5 KB (519 words) - 17:46, 20 September 2024
Aina Apse (25 March 1926 – 24 February 2015) was a New Zealand potter. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Canterbury Museum and Christchurch...
2 KB (166 words) - 03:48, 16 March 2024
absidiale is a small or secondary apse, one of the apses on either side of the main apse in a triapsidal church, or one of the apse-chapels when they project...
1 KB (162 words) - 17:10, 6 August 2020
The Apse of Sant Climent de Taüll (Catalan: Absis de Sant Climent de Taüll) is a Romanesque fresco in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona....
8 KB (986 words) - 20:41, 29 June 2024
a five-story visitors' center/cafe/gift shop; a bronze-casting apse; a ceramics apse; two large barrel vaults; a ring of apartment residences and quasi-public...
19 KB (2,125 words) - 17:25, 28 October 2024
only one great cross in the apse like the Hagia Irene in Constantinople (after 740). There were similar crosses in the apses of the Hagia Sophia Church...
104 KB (13,832 words) - 22:53, 15 October 2024
St Paul's Cathedral (section Apse)
della Pace in Rome.[page needed] These projecting arcs echo the shape of the apse at the eastern end of the building. The building is of two storeys of ashlar...
130 KB (13,886 words) - 14:22, 3 November 2024
centre over the nave to admit a clerestory and lower over the side-aisles. An apse at one end, or less frequently at both ends or on the side, usually contained...
100 KB (11,452 words) - 04:20, 2 November 2024
A new aisle was added on the north side, and, in 1489, a semi-circular apse and ambulatory was added at the eastern end, with dramatic Flamboyant columns...
18 KB (2,068 words) - 10:48, 12 October 2024
position behind the altar, near the wall of the apse. It had been the position of the magistrate in the apse of the Roman basilica, which provided the model...
15 KB (1,641 words) - 18:39, 20 October 2024
Trinity College Kirk (redirect from Trinity Apse)
Abbey in 1848. The original church design was never completed. Only the apse, choir (with aisles) and transepts were completed. The church was located...
22 KB (2,840 words) - 19:48, 7 October 2024
Orvieto Cathedral (section Apse)
included in the walls of the newly built transept chapels. He rebuilt the apse into a rectangular shape and added a large stained-glass quadrifore window...
31 KB (4,103 words) - 07:35, 26 October 2024
illustrating Biblical stories. Apse of the Church of St Justus, Segovia. Christ in Majesty was a common theme for the apse. A frieze of figures occupies...
132 KB (16,400 words) - 21:15, 2 November 2024
Apse Manor is a manor house on the Isle of Wight, situated just within the eastern boundary of the Newchurch parish. The house is pleasantly situated just...
6 KB (430 words) - 15:28, 13 October 2017
Qusayr 'Amra (section Throne apse)
Qusayr 'Amra or Quseir Amra, sometimes also named Qasr Amra (Arabic: قصر عمرة, romanized: Qaṣr ‘Amrah, lit. 'small qasr of 'Amra'), is the best-known of...
30 KB (3,281 words) - 06:39, 28 October 2024
east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. The chancel is generally the area used by the clergy and choir during worship...
10 KB (1,277 words) - 10:52, 26 October 2024
the intention of building a church inspired by the basilica at Loreto. The apse crypt of the church, funded by donations, was begun 19 March 1882, on the...
69 KB (7,205 words) - 14:02, 30 October 2024
first cathedral in the world, founded 303 year AD. Byzantine architecture: Apse of Santa Maria Maggiore (Rome), decorated in the 5th century with this glamorous...
59 KB (6,250 words) - 02:55, 31 October 2024
cloister and the apse, both completed after 1490. Ludovico's wife Beatrice was buried in the church in 1497. The design of the apse of the church has...
10 KB (775 words) - 08:45, 16 June 2024
a basilica plan structure with three naves, each of them with a terminal apse, and large columns separating the side naves. Connecting to the church is...
18 KB (2,445 words) - 07:45, 1 September 2024
staircase (the Grands Degres) to their right and the north flank and eastern apse of the Sainte-Chapelle to their left. The chapel exterior shows many of the...
52 KB (6,827 words) - 08:18, 26 October 2024