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bar tracery

Italian translation: decorazione ornamentale

11:54 Jun 12, 2002

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Art/Literary - Architecture / gothic architecture

English term or phrase: bar tracery

gothic architecture: the dominant class of tracery consisting of decorative patterns formed from stone bars.

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Italian translation:decorazione ornamentale

Explanation:
eseguita/ottenuta con lastre/strisce di pietra

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Gilda Manara
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non è quello che pensavo ma può essere utile, grazie
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un indizio

Nadia Ziliani

decorazione ornamentale

Gilda Manara

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decorazione ornamentale

Explanation:
eseguita/ottenuta con lastre/strisce di pietra

Gilda Manara
Italy
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non è quello che pensavo ma può essere utile, grazie

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un indizio

Explanation:
"tracery, bands or bars of stone, wood, or other material, either subdividing an opening or standing in relief against a wall and forming an ornamental pattern of solid members and open spaces. The term refers especially to the subdivisions in the arched openings of Gothic architecture. In Romanesque design the enclosing of twin openings within a single arch created a wall space above them, where a circular or quatrefoil opening was pierced as an ornament. This plate tracery became more complex in 12th-century rose windows of the Cathedral of Chartres and in early Gothic English churches. Later, windows became larger, areas of solid stone smaller, and masonry members more slender; the patterns in the spaces above the arches were created by bars of stone rather than by a pierced design. Such bar tracery (e.g., in the cathedral at Reims) prevailed in both France and England by the first half of the 13th cent., creating circles, trefoils, quatrefoils, and other varied geometrical designs. The terminations of these shapes, termed cusps, were finished in square or sharp points or in ornamental blobs".
Magari non aiuta ma può servire a visualizzare...(potrebbe bastare anche rosone)

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Nadia Ziliani
Local time: 01:25
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