THOLOBATE (Gr. bb)sos, a circular structure, dome, and Barns, a base)

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THOLOBATE (Gr. bb)sos, a circular structure, dome, and Barns, a base) , the architectural

term

TERM

given to the cylindrical drum on which a

dome

DOME (Lat domus,
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
; Ital. duomo,
cathedral
- CATHEDRAL
)

is raised. In the earlier

Byzantine

BYZANTINE

churches, the

dome

DOME (Lat domus,
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
; Ital. duomo,
cathedral
- CATHEDRAL
)

rested direct on the pendentives and the windows were pierced in the dome itself; in later examples, between the

pendentive

PENDENTIVE

and the dome an intervening circular

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

was built, in which the windows were pierced, and this is the type which was universally employed by the architects of the Renaissance, of whose works the best-known examples are those of St Peter at Rome, St

Paul

PAUL
PAUL (PAULUS)

's in London, and the churches of the Invalides, the Val de Grace and the Sorbonne in Paris.

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