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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Hagia Sophia (section Apse mosaics)
the mosaic inside the semi-dome of the apse inside the liturgical space. The mosaic in the semi-dome above the apse at the east end shows Mary, mother of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Patriarch of Alexandria. Pope Benedict XIV undertook the restoration of the apse mosaic and the frescoes of the central nave, and commissioned the painter...
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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...
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planetary body about its primary body. The line of apsides (also called apse line, or major axis of the orbit) is the line connecting the two extreme...
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the apse side walls are two famous mosaic panels, completed in 547. On viewer left (but privileged right side from perspective of Christ in apse) is a...
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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...
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