An apse chapel, apsidal chapel, or chevet is a chapel in traditional Christian church architecture, which radiates tangentially from one of the bays or...
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In architecture, an apse (pl.: apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς, apsis, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis; pl.: apsides) is...
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me with thy counsel", Psalm 73:24) All Seeing Eye cross Eye of God on apse chapel ceiling in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv, Ukraine The...
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orbit Apse chapel (or apsis chapel or apside chapel or apsidal chapel; also known as the apse or apsis or apside), a part of a church that uses the apse architectural...
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with radiating chapels The chevet or east front has six chapels placed between the flying buttresses which form a half-circle around the apse. The buttresses...
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Sainte-Chapelle (redirect from The Holy Chapel)
work, and restored by Steinheil. The apse of the upper chapel The Chasse, which held the sacred relics The upper chapel to the west, with the later flamboyant...
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interior. The most Gothic portion is the apse at the east end, where the buttresses surround semicircular group of chapels, located behind the altar. The classical...
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Rayonnant style chapels. It contains the apse and disambulatory, and three radiating chapels; the axis chapel of the Virgin; and chapels of the Sacred Heart...
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the chapel with frescoes, including the walls and the ceiling. The nave is 20.88 metres long, 8.41 metres wide, and 12.65 metres high. The apse area...
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series of openings divided by thin stone bars, while before 1230 the apse chapels of Reims Cathedral were decorated with bar tracery with cusped circles...
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Orvieto Cathedral (redirect from Chapel of San Brizio)
eventually 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...
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Amiens Cathedral (section The chevet and east chapels)
century) Windows of the central apse chapel (13th century) Four windows from the 13th century Windows of the Chapel of Saint-Etienne Art Deco stained...
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keystone in the rib-vaulting at Chapel of St. Anne in Malbork, 14th century. Bossed keystone in the ceiling of an apse chapel (Toulouse Cathedral) Horseshoe...
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large hall and a raised rectangular apse with an altar and two small lateral sacristies. Begun around 1449–50, the chapel was probably completed around 1459...
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Reims Cathedral (section Apse)
of the north roofline The apse, the east end of the cathedral, has one axial chapel at the end and four radiating chapels. The exterior is lavishly decorated...
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St. John's Cathedral ('s-Hertogenbosch) (section Chapel of the Illustrious Brotherhood / Holy Sacrament)
This was done in the Gothic style that now dominates the exterior. The apse chapels and outer choir aisles were constructed first. The transept and choir...
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or less identical" to this other chapel: a nave measuring approximately 3 m on each side and an apse. In the chapel of Redemptus, on the other hand, access...
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The Chapel of St John the Evangelist (St John's Chapel) is an 11th century Christian chapel of Norman architecture, in the White Tower of the Tower of...
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Oratory of the Crucifix) Veronese (Marriage of the Virgin in the north apse chapel) San Polo, Venice Adrian Fletcher's Paradoxplace Venice Pages – San Polo...
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cathedrals, an apse chapel was used for rehearsing. That was also the place where choirbooks, instruments and robes were kept. The name chapel transferred...
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original designs on the aisle and apse walls were repainted. It was desired by the chaplaincy team of the college to have a chapel that is "sensitive to the tradition...
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flight of stairs. The structure of the chapel is a three-aisled nave composed of four bays, leading to an apse, which contains the altar, and behind that...
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infancy. The chapel cost £60,000 to build. The chapel is a small rectangle with an apse at its east end. Its interior is highly decorated. The chapel was consecrated...
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Florence Baptistery with a scarsella on the west side Antechamber Apse Apse chapel Hourihane, Colum (2012). The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and...
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ultra-semicircular arches over Corinthian capitals, and the apse formed of a single rectangular chapel. The many geometrical decorative elements are also original...
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Santi Severino e Sossio (section The apse chapels)
seven chapels on each side and a deep rectangular apse. The nave frescoes and canvases were painted by Francesco de Mura, while the lateral chapels include...
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(1458). The right apse chapel has a fresco cycle of Stories of the Virgin by Bicci di Lorenzo (15th century), while in the left chapel is a Madonna with...
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the apse and the bell tower in 1494, and the first two bells were cast in 1500. The choir of was completed in 1537, and the altars of the apse chapels were...
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Notre Dame de Roscudon Church (section The apse)
the baptismal font chapel; the transept gable; the window in the south aisle of the choir, and finally the large southern apse chapel. The difference in...
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domed chapel. The east end had a square apse, and was originally flanked by two basilican structures, now lost but known through archaeology. The chapel was...
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