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	Algarve, Portugal - Tourism Information - Silves
		The main chapel is flanked by recesses with a ribbed vault.
		The main chapel has a ribbed vault and a Renaissance retable (16th century) with paintings from a later period.
		Four of the towers have gothic doorways, vaulted halls a stones bearing the marks of medieval masons.
	www.portugalvirtual.pt /_tourism/algarve/silves/uksilves.html (988 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ribbed vault (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Vaulting makes it possible to roof over a comparatively large space using bricks, stone blocks or ; but cruder and more expensive as well, and ultimately limited by the length of wood or stone available.
		But with the reintroduction of the groin vault, more light could be brought into the buildings: instead of building groin vaults as the intersection of two barrell vaults, the master masons simply built one long line of groin vaults.
		Groined vault (Arch.), a vault having groins, that is, one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ribbed-vault (1602 words)

	Gothic Art and Architecture - Search View - MSN Encarta
		On the other hand, the tall attenuated piers of the ground-story arcade, the pencil-thin vaulting shafts rising through the clerestory to the springing of the ribs, and the use of the pointed arch throughout the whole edifice all contribute to those unique soaring effects that constitute Gothic architecture’s most dynamic expression.
		In the ambulatory of Saint-Denis, the slim columns supporting the vaults and the elimination of the dividing walls separating the radiating chapels result in a new sense of flowing space presaging the expanded spaciousness of the later interiors.
		Immense windows, rising from near the pavement to the arches of the vaults, occupy the entire area between the vaulting shafts, thus transforming the whole chapel into a sturdy stone armature for the radiant stained-glass windows.
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	vault - definition by dict.die.net
		Groined vault (Arch.), a vault having groins, that is, one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault.
		Vault light, a partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement or ceiling to admit light to a vault below.
		To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.
	dict.die.net /vault (323 words)

	Gothic Architecture
		During the first phase of the transition, 1100-40, the builders struggled to master the rib vault in its simpler problems: they learned to construct it on square and on oblong plans and even over the awkward curves of ambulatory aisles, but their experiments were always on a small scale.
		Barrel vaults were occasionally used, groin vaults in innumerable cases; the groin vault with ribs first occurs in Durham in 1093, an astonishing date, since the earliest ribbed vault claimed for France is in the diminutive church of Rhuis, a structure the date of which is unknown, but is placed at about 1100.
		The earliest known rib vault is claimed by Rivoira to be that of San Flaviano, in Umbria, but there is some doubt as to whether this is the original vault of a church known to have been built in 1032.
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	Gothic Art and Architecture - ninemsn Encarta
		Cathedral architects found that, since the outward thrusts of the vaults were concentrated in the small areas at the springing of the ribs and were also deflected downwards by the pointed arches, pressure could be readily countered by narrow buttresses and by flying buttresses, which slanted away from the wall to form an arch.
		On the other hand, the tall attenuated piers of the ground-storey arcade, the pencil-thin vaulting shafts rising through the clerestory to the springing of the ribs, and the use of the pointed arch throughout the whole edifice all contribute to the loftiness and soaring effects that constitute Gothic architecture's most dynamic expression.
		The particular phase of Gothic architecture that was to lead to the creation of the great northern European cathedrals, however, began in the early 1140s in the construction of the chevet of the royal abbey church of St-Denis, the burial church of the French kings and queens on the outskirts of Paris.
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	Key Elements of Gothic Architecture
		The ribbed vault was as critical to the development of Gothic architecture as was the steel girder in the nineteenth century or reinforced concrete in the twentieth century.
		These are the transverse arches that span the ends of the vault, the lateral or longitudinal arches that span the length or sides of the vault, and the two diagonal arches that reach from corner to corner...
		With the barrel vault the lateral thrust is considerable and has to be met with thick walls or with side aisles that serve as buttresses to the main vaults.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/Architec/MiddleAgesArchitectural/GothicArchitecture/KeyElementsGothicArchitecture/KeyElementsGothicArchitecture.htm (766 words)

	Romanesque and Gothic Architecture - Vault Structure
		The heavy ribbed vault of the Romanesque building are made possible by thick walls, heavy cruciform piers, and few windows.
		Ribbed vaults are structurally more efficient than a barrel vault that evenly distributes the weight and thrust along the wall.
		A ribbed vault directs thrust to specific points in the masonry--where the ribs meet the wall at the clerestory level.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~hart205/Cathedrals/Structure/vault.html (139 words)

	Ribbed Vault
		Ribbed There were no industrious workmen, and the peasants caught the commissaries who ventured Vault too far out of town with the proclamation and killed them.
		There is Vault a band of thieves in our district who ought to be arrested by a strong force- October 11." "The Emperor is extremely displeased that despite the strict orders Ribbed to stop pillage, parties of marauding Guards are continually seen returning to the Kremlin.
		And yet with his experience of war Ribbed he did not order all the superfluous vehicles to be burned, as he had done with those Vault of a certain marshal when approaching Moscow.
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	Architecture Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A quadrant vault is a half-barrel (tunnel) vault.
		A sexpartile vault is a rib vault with six panels.
		In a ribbed vault, there is a framework of ribs or arches under the intersections of the vaulting sections.
	tudorhistory.org /glossaries/architecture/v.html (140 words)

	Definition of Vault from dictionary.net
		Barrel, Cradle, Cylindrical, or Wagon, vault (Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section or profile at all points.
		Ribbed vault (Arch.), a vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface.
		Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth.
	www.dictionary.net /vault (322 words)

	Vault (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vault (fencing) - From en garde with right foot forward, the forward knee straightens while the rear foot steps behind, to the right, and forward, thus pulling the forward foot to pivot around on the ball of the foot so that the back is turned forward.
		Vault (math) - a mathematical construct that consist of two equal half-cylinders of radius that intersect at right angles so that the lines of their intersections (the "groins") terminate in the polyhedron vertices of a square.
		Vault (gymnastics) - an artistic gymnastics apparatus, the standard of which changed from a vaulting horse to a vaulting table.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vault (942 words)

	Romanesque Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Ribbed vault- a cross or groin vault in which the groins are marked by projecting stone ribs.
		The use of diagonal ribs along the groin together with wall ribs and transverse ribs radically changed the basic visual effect of vaulting from one of broadly curving surfaces to one of cellular division and linear movement.
		The ribs reduced the quantity of centering (wooden supports) required during the construction and permitted a thinner vault, reduced thrust, and therefore reduced the mass throughout the building, allowing larger areas of windows.
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	Normandy Excursions, Cultural travel tours of Normandy: Norman Architecture
		The vault of the Abbaye aux Dames is a ribbed quadripartite square vault, bisected and strengthened by a transverse arch.
		The vault of the Abbaye aux Hommes takes the design one step further: here the vault spaces are curved both from the transverse arch and from the intermediate arch, which becomes, not an arch -- as in the Abbaye aux Dames -- but a true vaulting rib.
		In the Abbaye aux Hommes, the problem was solved by half-barrel vaults springing from the aisle walls and abutting against the vaults of the nave beneath the roof.
	mynormandy.home.att.net /regards-pierre.html (1572 words)

	FanFiction.Net - Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		[1913 Webster] Barrel vault, Cradle vault, Cylindrical vault, or Wagon vault (Arch.), a kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section or profile at all points.
		It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see Rampant vault, under Rampant), or curved in plan, as around the apse of a church.
		Ribbed vault (Arch.), a vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=Vault (406 words)

	Gothic Art and Architecture - MSN Encarta
		The architects of the cathedrals found that, since the outward thrusts of the vaults were concentrated in the small areas at the springing of the ribs and were also deflected downward by the pointed arches, the pressure could be counteracted readily by narrow buttresses and by external arches, called flying buttresses.
		The particular phase of Gothic architecture that was to lead to the creation of the northern cathedrals, however, was initiated in the early 1140s in the construction of the chevet of the royal abbey church of Saint-Denis, the burial church of the French kings and queens near the outskirts of Paris.
		Saint-Denis led in the 1160s to the first of the great cathedrals, Notre Dame (begun 1163) in Paris, and to a period of experimentation in voiding the walls and in reducing the size of the internal supports.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562615/Gothic_Art_and_Architecture.html (1362 words)

	AHA 241: Terms for Late Medieval Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The naves of several Romanesque c hurches are covered with pointed barrel vaults that enabled the builders to build taller structures; the first of these, at Cluny, was the tallest church in western Europe until the construction of the Gothic cathedral of Paris, nearly 200 years later.
		The groin vault focuses the weight load on four legs (piers) where heavy buttressing enabels the spac es between the supports, and at the end of each vault, to be opened up.
		The ribbed vault over the nave of a Gothic church is lighter in structure, as noted above, and its height is further supported by t he use of flying buttresses (figs.
	www.missouri.edu /~ahaanne/Terms.html (1179 words)

	ArtLex's V page
		A quadrant vault is a half-barrel (tunnel) vault.
		In a ribbed vault, there is a framework of ribs or arches under the intersections of the vaulting sections.
		A sexpartite vault is a ribbed vault with six panels.
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	Gothic Art And Architecture
		The problem was that the heavy stonework of the traditional arched barrel vault and the groin vault exerted a tremendous downward and outward pressure that tended to push the walls upon which the vault rested outward, thus collapsing them.
		A crucial point was that the outward thrust of the ribbed ceiling vaults was carried across the outside walls of the nave, first to an attached outer buttress and then to a freestanding pier by means of a half arch known as a flying buttress.
		At the technical level Gothic architecture is characterized by the ribbed vault (a vault in which stone ribs carry the vaulted surface), the pointed arch, and the flying buttress (normally a half arch carrying the thrust of a roof or vault across an aisle to an outer pier or buttress).
	history-world.org /gothic_art_and_architecture.htm (5979 words)

	Dictionary
		Cross-ribbed vaults - a cross or groin vault is created by the intersection of two barrell vaults (a continuous semicircular vault) of equal size.
		A ribbed vault is found when the joining of curved sides of a groin vault is demarcated by a raised rib.
		An 18th Century style of art and decoration with a concern for the trivial rather than the significant; colorful and capricious, closely linked historically with the fashionable reign of Louis XV of France; the style was in reaction against the oppressive formality of French classical baroque.
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	Bay - LoveToKnow 1911
		The sills of the windows are at a lower level than those in the hall, and, raised on one or two steps, are seats in the recess.
		The recess of the bay-window was generally covered with a ribbed vault of elaborate design, and the window itself subdivided by mullions and transoms.
		In some of the larger windows such as those at Cowdray and Hampton Court there are no fewer than five transoms, and this sub-division gave great scale to the design.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bay (546 words)

	Gothic Art and Architecture
		The architects of the cathedrals found that, since the outward thrusts of the vaults were concentrated in the small areas at the springing of the ribs and were also deflected downward by the pointed arches, the pressure could be counteracted readily by narrow buttresses and by external arches, called flying buttresses.
		The particular phase of Gothic architecture that was to lead to the creation of the northern cathedrals, however, was initiated in the early 1140s in the construction of the chevet of the royal abbey church of Saint-Denis, the burial church of the French kings and queens near the outskirts of Paris.
		In the ambulatory of Saint-Denis, the slim columns supporting the vaults and the elimination of the dividing walls separating the radiating chapels result in a new sense of flowing space presaging the expanded spaciousness of the later interiors.
	www.muhlenberg.edu /depts/forlang/LLC/rus_cult/gothic_resources.htm (4282 words)

	Werkstuk Engels Gothic art \| scholieren.com
		The problem was that the hea-vy stonework of the traditional arched barrel vault and the groin vault exerted a tremendous downward and outward pressure that tended to push the walls upon which the vault rested out-ward, thus collapsing them.
		Since the combination of ribs and piers relieved the interve-ning vertical wall spaces of their supportive function, these walls could be built thinner and could even be opened up with large windows or other glazing.
		A crucial point was that the outward thrust of the ribbed ceiling vaults was carried across the outside walls of the nave, first to an attached outer but-tress and then to a freestanding pier by means of a half arch known as a flying buttress.
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	basicarch
		A ribbed vault is a framework of diagonal arched ribs carrying the compartments of a vault which cover the spaces between them.
		The ribbed vaults are usually found outside cathedrals, but sometimes are inside the cathedrals as well due to their simplicity and easy access.
		The ribbed vaults give a sense of unity to the structure, and make the vaults unlinear as well.
	www.geocities.com /devilyank8/basicarch.html (493 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gothic Architecture
		The next step was of course the vaulting of the great squares of the nave, but before this was attempted the rib vault was devised, and the task rendered structurally more simple.
		During the first phase of the transition, 1100-40, the builders struggled to master the rib vault in its simpler problems: they learned to construct it on square and on oblong plans and even over the awkward curves of ambulatory aisles, but their experiments were always on a small scale.
		The vaulting, both of the ambulatory and of the apse, is stilted and has its full complement of ribs, the shafting throughout is finely articulated, the dimensions are stately, the proportions just and effective, while the easterly termination is a perfectly developed apse with rudimentary chapels -- a chevet in posse.
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