Search results for "Ceiling" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Latillas, peeled sticks used as a traditional ceiling material, are often placed in an angled pattern above the vigas. Pueblo revival style may ...16 KB (2,339 words) - 23:24, 14 December 2023
- usually made of clay or stone, and has a low ceiling. The temazcal structure is usually shared by an extended family unit. Unlike European sauna culture ...15 KB (2,539 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- at night, you are awoken by creaking sounds in the ceiling. You infer from these sounds that your neighbor upstairs is having another bout of insomnia ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 22:38, 5 February 2023
- with a flame always burning and hanging from the ceiling was made by local craftsmen who have a special tradition of making wrought iron. ...14 KB (2,268 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- The ceiling of the burial chamber is decorated with stars, and the walls are lined with passages from the Pyramid texts. An empty black sarcophagus ...17 KB (2,687 words) - 00:23, 8 November 2023
- by Tommaso Laureti (1530-1602), ceiling painting in the Sala di Constantino, Vatican Palace. Images like this one celebrate the destruction of ...17 KB (2,782 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- sound problems caused by the hall's high ceiling.]] The four significant changes to the design after Utzon left were: # Cladding ...15 KB (2,320 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- of the four central pillars and the central ceiling. Those pillars may have been hand churned while the others had been lathe turned.Kamath, 117 ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- kilograms which is suspended from the ceiling of the Cathedral of Santiago ... incense, which are either hung from the ceiling or on special stands. Worshipers ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- plain bases to the high-pointed arches of the ceiling, directing the eye to the massive clerestory windows in the apse. Everywhere vivid color ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- of the poor but for the rich and powerful, the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel created by Michelangelo for Pope Julius II. === Mosaic === ...33 KB (5,258 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- * Ceiling of the Garnier Opera, 1964 * Exodus, 1952–1966 * War, 1964–1966, Kunsthaus Zürich * Mosaic murals in the lobby of the Metropolitan ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- falling from the stucco that decorated her bedroom ceiling, and was forced to resign in 1956. Luce maintained her association with the conservative ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- of a single room or prayer hall with a vaulted ceiling. The Madrasah, or school, was a simple building within the courtyard. The houses were simple ...17 KB (2,566 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- late fifth century. Mural painting, eastern ceiling of main burial chamber, Jangcheon-ri Tomb No.1, Jian, Jilin province, China.]] ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- of Noah by Michelangelo Buonarroti, from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo shows Noah drunk before his sons, and simultaneously, in ...17 KB (2,732 words) - 18:11, 11 November 2023
- that there are seven days in a week, that the ceiling is up and the floor is down; things which he already knew, but which suddenly struck him as ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- side (these days often clad in scaffolding). The ceiling was painted blue and decorated with stars and a spectacular statue of the goddess, clad in ...17 KB (2,700 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- *In Italy, it was customary to scatter rose petals from the ceiling of the churches to recall the miracle of the fiery tongues; hence in Sicily ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- columns carried the weight of the vast and heavy ceiling. The tops of the columns were made from animal sculptures such as two headed bulls, lions and ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
