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Triumphal arch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The rhythmic ABA motif— of central arched void flanked by smaller ones— was adapted in Classsical architecture, particularly since the Renaissance, to articulate the walls of structures. |
 | | Later arches were built of high-quality marble with a large central arch in the middle, its ceiling treated as a barrel vault, and sometimes two smaller ones on each side, adorned with a complete Architectural order, of columns and entablature, enriched with symbolic or narrative bas-reliefs and crowned with bronze statues, often a quadriga. |
 | | Arch of Tiberius, Leptis Magna, erected 35 CE Arch of Septimius Severus, Leptis Magna |
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