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Rib vault

A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs. Variations were used in Roman architecture, Byzantine architecture, Islamic architecture, Romanesque architecture, and especially Gothic architecture. Thin stone panels fill the space…

History, Cross vaults & Early history

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Rib vault

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related to Bibliography · 79
Rib vault → Abbayes, Anna, Antiquité, Architecture, Barrie, Bechmann, Berlin, Brothers, Caractéristique, Cathedrals, Cathédales Gothiques, Cathédrales, Christophe, Châteaux, Claude, Co KG, Concepts, Das, David, Ducher
related to Sexpartite vaulting · 29
Rib vault → Abbaye-aux-Dames, Abbaye-aux-Hommes, Abbey, Bourges Cathedral, Caen, Canterbury Cathedral, Durham, Durham Cathedral, Early, England, Englishman, France, Gothic, In, It, Laon Cathedral, Notre-Dame, Noyon Cathedral, Paris, Ribbed
related to Quadripartite vaulting · 22
Rib vault → Amiens Cathedral, Beauvais Cathedral, Cathedrals, Chartres Cathedral, Cologne Cathedral, Conciergerie, Durham Cathedral, Four-part, Gothic, Gothic Cathedrals, Hall, High Gothic, It, Nave, Notre-Dame, Paris, Reims Cathedral, Rome, Rouen Cathedral, St Peter's Basilica
related to history · 21
Rib vault → AD, Armenian, Byzantine, Byzantine Cappadocia, Byzantine Greece, Fourth Crusade, Frankokratia, Gothic, Greece, Hosios Loukas, In, Islamic, Kilise, Lombard, Pantheon, Persian, Rib, Roman, The Romans, This
related to Complex rib vaults · 16
Rib vault → An, At Ely Cathedral, Beginning, Central Europe, Decorated Gothic, England, Exeter Cathedral, Flamboyant, France, Gothic, Perpendicular, Sondergotik, This, Tierceron, Vaults, Wells Cathedral
related to Transition to Gothic architecture · 13
Rib vault → At, Construction, Durham Cathedral, France, In, It, Norman, Since, St-Calais, Thanks, The, The Durham, William
related to Function · 12
Rib vault → Drawings, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French Monuments, Gothic, In Romanesque, National Museum, Paris, Rib, Structure, The, This, To
related to Construction · 7
Rib vault → French, Next, Once, The, These, When, Workers
related to Romanesque architecture · 5
Rib vault → Europe, Romanesque, Saint-Philibert, The, Tournus

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the Flamboyant in Franceinstance ofand similarly extravagant rib vaulting would appear in other late Gothic styles0.80text
Sondergotik in Central Europe.Tierceron vaults make use of tertiary ribsinstance ofand similarly extravagant rib vaulting would appear in other late Gothic styles0.80text
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyBechmann0.60section
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyRoland0.60section
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyLes Racines0.60section
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyCathédrales0.60section
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyFrench0.60section
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyPayot0.60section
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyISBN0.60section
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyDucher0.60section
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyRobert0.60section
Rib vaultrelated to BibliographyCaractéristique0.60section

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