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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    the apse and the bell tower in 1494, and the first two bells were cast in 1500. The choir was completed in 1537, and the altars of the apse chapels were...
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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    transept and an apse with three chapels. The crossing area is illuminated by the large windows of the transept arms and main chapel, as well as by a...
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    The interior was refurbished in 1664, with a single nave and three apse chapels. On the lateral walls, are frescoes of the Risen Christ pointing to an...
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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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    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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