French: arcs à parapheEnglish translation: intricate arches 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | arcs à paraphe | | English translation: | intricate arches | | Entered by: | femme |
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Art/Literary - Architecture / Architectural Depiction | | French term or phrase: arcs à paraphe | Description of building.
"Celui de Ravenne y épouse la somptuosité du Gothico-byzantin, sinon de Roman fleuri et décadent. On revoit le composite inextricable des frontons, des entablements, des **arcs à paraphe,** où se déploya l'imagination confuse et la grandiose mauvais goût d'un Balthasar Lenghena..."
Mille Mercis!
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| | intricate/bold/wavy arches | Explanation:
Not an established type of arch, TTBOMK. Since a "paraphe" is a flourish, as in a signature, it seems to imply something both bold yet intricate.
For some reason I think in particular of "arcs en accolade", one with a shape like curly brackets/braces ( { ] horizontally at the top
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Note added at 2 days13 hrs (2008-03-17 13:46:42 GMT)
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Apart from anything else, it would appear the ref. is to Baldassare Longhena.
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Note added at 2 days14 hrs (2008-03-17 14:02:17 GMT)
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This maybe (if it is internal)?
http://www.mosaicatlas.com/enlargement.aspx?pWidth=0&pHeight...
[Battistero Neoniano, Ravenna]
Or other Ravenna arches with a mosaic "flourish", e.g.
http://www.mosaicatlas.com/atlassite.aspx?RegionID=37&Locati...
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Bourth
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| Note from asker to answererI think "inticrate" will word just fine. Merci!
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| freeform arches
Explanation:
A mere suggestion inspired unashamedly by Bourth's interpretation ... while trying to leave it as vague as possible, since 'arc à paraphe' gets zero Ghits and is not mentioned by Viollet le Duc.
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| Gothico-byzantin arches
Explanation:
I'm still trying to work out the exact name of the kind of arches here, but it sounds to me like "Gothico-byzantin" refers to the sort we see, for example, on the Palace of the Doges in Venice, especially in the upper register here:
http://www.tickitaly.com/images/tickets/doges-palace/venice-...
which seem to have "developed" out of ones like this:
http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Doges_Palace.h...
But I have no memory of having seen examples of this style in Ravenna (which is, of course, not all that far from Venice), most noted for its 6th -7th c. buildings.
"Intricate interlaced [='inextricable'] arches" is what they are, but I don't have access to, say Banister Fletcher, to quickly find an accurate English term.
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Note added at 2 days13 hrs (2008-03-17 13:11:19 GMT)
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Bourth's "arcs en accolade" is close to the mark, but it sounds to me like what we are dealing with is something much more "inextricable" --the arcade is going to be made up of, yes, "arcs en talon"
http://www.cosmovisions.com/monuArcAccolade.htm
(what are those called in English? Sir Banister, where are you when we need you?) but interlaced together, perhaps in the pattern I mentioned above
http://www.tickitaly.com/images/tickets/doges-palace/venice-...
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| intricate/bold/wavy arches
Explanation:
Not an established type of arch, TTBOMK. Since a "paraphe" is a flourish, as in a signature, it seems to imply something both bold yet intricate.
For some reason I think in particular of "arcs en accolade", one with a shape like curly brackets/braces ( { ] horizontally at the top
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Note added at 2 days13 hrs (2008-03-17 13:46:42 GMT)
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Apart from anything else, it would appear the ref. is to Baldassare Longhena.
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Note added at 2 days14 hrs (2008-03-17 14:02:17 GMT)
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This maybe (if it is internal)?
http://www.mosaicatlas.com/enlargement.aspx?pWidth=0&pHeight...
[Battistero Neoniano, Ravenna]
Or other Ravenna arches with a mosaic "flourish", e.g.
http://www.mosaicatlas.com/atlassite.aspx?RegionID=37&Locati...
| Bourth
France
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PRO pts in category: 350
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| Note from asker to answerer| I think "inticrate" will word just fine. Merci! |
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