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the orthogonal
barrel vault
the thrust of a barrel vault
Hamlin, Forms and Functions, I, p 518
Akkadian Palace
at Eshnunna, 3rd
millennium BC:
vaulted sewer
Seton Lloyd, 'Building in
Brick and Stone', in Charles
Singer et al [eds], A History
of Technology, vol I, From
Early Times to Fall of
Ancient Empires (Oxford
1954), p 466
Palace of Sargon,
Khorsabad, c 700 BC,
reconstruction of the
arched passages
MUAS 11,797
Ipogeo di San Manno, Perugia, Etruscan, undated
Coarelli, Etruscan Cities, p 68
Temple of Aesculapius, Palace of
Diocletian, Split, c AD 300: coffered vault
Miles Lewis
Temple of
Aesculapius,
Diocletian's
Palace, Split
T G Jackson, Dalmatia,
the Quarnero and Istria,
with Cettigne in
Montenegro and the Island
of Grado (3 vols,
Clarendon Press, Oxford
1887), II, p 65, after
Robert Adam
Qasr Amra, Jordan, c AD 711
Miles Lewis
Qasr Amra, Jordan, c AD 711: hall roof with three parallel barrel vaults
Henri Stierlin, Islam Volume I: Early Achitecture from Baghdad to Cordoba (Taschen, Köln 1996), p 72
buttressing barrel vaults in Roman construction
Lancaster, Concrete Vaulted Construction, p 134
Basilica Nova of
Maxentius, or
Constantine, Rome,
finished after 313
Swift, Roman Sources of
Christian Art, p 14
reduced span centering
reduced span centering of a temple at Atil,
and the final dressed-off arch
Armin Hermann
Citadel, Amman, Jordan, 7th Century AD, upper part
of the entrance hall
Ignacio Arce, 'Umayyad Arches, Vaults & Domes: Merging and Re-creation.
Contributions to Early Islamic Construction History', in Malcolm Dunkeld et al [eds],
Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Construction History (3 vols,
Cambridge 2006), I, p 200
H Sophia, Istanbul, by Anthemios of Tralles & Isodorus of Miletus,
532-548: provision for reduced span centering in a half dome
Auguste Choisy, L'Art de Bâtir chez les Byzantins (SA de Publications Périodiques,
Paris 1883),
the lightened vault
hollow tile vaulted
roofing in Sind,
India, by J Fife
J Fife, 'Vaulted Roofs in Sind',
Royal Engineers, Professional
Papers Classified [an anthology of
offprints from Professional Papers
on Indian Engineering] (undated
compilation, but documents c
1864-71), I, xlii (c 1865), plate lv.
hollow tile as used in a Roman vault at Bath, England
L C Lancaster 'Large Freestanding Barrel Vaults in the Roman Empire: a Comparison of Structural Techniques', in
Malcolm Dunkeld et al [eds], Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Construction History (3 vols,
Cambridge 2006), II, p 1835
diagram of the
Roman vault at
Bath, England
L C Lancaster 'Large
Freestanding Barrel Vaults in
the Roman Empire: a
Comparison of Structural
Techniques', in Malcolm
Dunkeld et al [eds],
Proceedings of the Second
International Congress on
Construction History (3 vols,
Cambridge 2006), II, p 1834
armchair vault
construction
Brodribb, Roman
Brick and Tile, p 46
Temple of Diana at Nîmes, France,
AD c 140:
interior view, detail &
diagram of vault construction
Miles Lewis; Adam, Roman Building, p 177;
Hamlin, Forms and Functions, I, p 485
Temple of Diana at Nîmes, plan and section
Henri Stierlin, Encyclopædia of World Architecture (2 vols, London 1977), I, p 76
the tied vault
Katedrala Sveti Jakova [Cathedral of St James] (1431-1536), Šibenik,
Croatia,1431-1536: east end & detail of the south flank
Miles Lewis
Cathedral, Šibenik
view; isometric diagram of vaulting system; cross-section; detail of a dome rib
T G Jackson, Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado (3 vols, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1887), I, p 382
M S Buršić & Peter Ferschin, 'Structural Analysis of an Outstanding Historical Building: New Insight into its Construction History', in Santiago Huerta
[ed], Proceedings of the First International Congress on Construction History (3 vols, Madrid 2003), III, pp 1857-9
the cathedral at Šibenik: nave vault & crossing, showing the iron ties
Miles Lewis
design for a barrack
in India with an
exposed barrel vault
roof and tie rods, c
1866
J G M, 'Indian Barracks', Royal
Engineers, Professional Papers
Classified [an anthology of
offprints from Professional Papers
on Indian Engineering] (undated
compilation, but documents c
1864-71), II, unnumbered issue (c
1866), plate xv
the groin vault
barrel & groin vaults
Miles Lewis [ed], Architectura (Lane Cove [New South Wales] 2008), p 207
Basilica of Maxentius, Rome, finished after 313
Miles Lewis
Basilica of Maxentius: cutaway diagram
Swift, Roman Sources of Christian Art (New York 1951), p 14
groin vault diagram
Roman
concrete and
tile vaulting as
used in the
imperial
palaces on the
Palatine Hill,
Rome, diagram
after Choisy
Acland, The Gothic
Vault, p 34
Baths of Diocletian, Rome, AD 298 - 305/6, now Sta
Maria degli Angeli: reconstruction & moderrn views
Edmond Paulin, 1880; Frank Sear
octagonal umbrella dome, Baths of Baia
Jean-Pierre Adam [translated Anthony Matthews],
Roman Building Materials and Techniques (Indiana
UOP, Bloomington [Indiana] 1994), p 183
the cloister vault
cloister vault & groin vault
Lancaster, Concrete Vaulted Construction, p 58
Miles Lewis [ed], Architectura (Lane Cove [New South Wales] 2008), p 207
Terrace of Attalos I, Delphi, ?c 230 BC, subterranean exedra
T D Boyd, ‘The Arch and the Vault in Greek Architecture’, American Journal of Archaeology, 82 (1) (1978), p 96
Terrace of Attalos I, Delphi, ?c 230 BC, subterranean exedra
T D Boyd, ‘The Arch and the Vault in Greek Architecture’, American Journal of Archaeology, 82 (1) (1978), p 96
cloister [reverse
groin] vault in the
theatre at Alinda, in
Caria, possibly c
200 BC
T D Boyd, ‘The Arch
and the Vault in Greek
Architecture’, American
Journal of Archaeology,
82 (1) (1978), p 96
Flavian Palace, or Domus Augustana, Rome, inaugurated
AD 92, plan, section & cutaway isometric
Boëthius & Perkins, Etruscan and Roman Architecture, p 252
S Vitale,
Ravenna, c
530-548,
diagram
Lewis, Architetura,
p 220
stereometric vaults
annular vault in
an underground
structure at
Pergamon,
Turkey
Miles Lewis
elliptical vault near the theatre at Pergamon, Turkey
Miles Lewis
Temple of Apollo Didyma, c 332 BC,c AD 120, passage with raking vault
Miles Lewis
raking vaults of
the stadium at
Perge, Turkey,
AD C2nd
Miles Lewis
West Theatre, Umm Qais [Gadara], Jordan, pre-4th century: cavea, and passage with raking vault
Miles Lewis
the geometry of the raking
vaults at the theatre at
Jebleh [Gabala], Syria,
probably early C3rd AD
Teresa Patricio & Tarcis Stevens, 'The Roman
Theatre of Jebleh in Syria: Analysis of the
Construction Form', in Santiago Huerta [ed],
Proceedings of the First International Congress on
Construction History (3 vols, Madrid 2003), III, p 1610
location of vaults at the theatre at Jebleh in Syria,
probably early C3rd AD
Teresa Patricio & Tarcis Stevens, 'The Roman Theatre of Jebleh in Syria: Analysis of
the Construction Form', in Santiago Huerta [ed], Proceedings of the First International
Congress on Construction History (3 vols, Madrid 2003), III, p 1608
end profiles of a conical vault at the theatre at Jebleh in Syria,
probably early C3rd AD, semicircular and (supposedly) three-centred
Teresa Patricio & Tarcis Stevens, 'The Roman Theatre of Jebleh in Syria: Analysis of the Construction Form', in
Santiago Huerta [ed], Proceedings of the First International Congress on Construction History (3 vols, Madrid
2003), III, p 1609
stepped vaults
theatre at Jebleh in
Syria
theatre at Bosra,
Syria
Teresa Patricio & Tarcis Stevens, 'The
Roman Theatre of Jebleh in Syria:
Analysis of the Construction Form', in
Santiago Huerta [ed], Proceedings of
the First International Congress on
Construction History (3 vols, Madrid
2003), III, p 1610
Miles Lewis
stepped vault at the
theatre at Jebleh in
Syria
Teresa Patricio & Tarcis Stevens, 'The
Roman Theatre of Jebleh in Syria:
Analysis of the Construction Form', in
Santiago Huerta [ed], Proceedings of the
First International Congress on
Construction History (3 vols, Madrid
2003), III, p 1611
oblique barrel
vaults
Stela de Paolo & Vincenzo
Minenna, 'Oblique Vaults',
in K-E Kurrer et al [eds],
Procedings of the Third
International Congress on
Construction History (3
vols, Brandenburg
University of Technology,
Cottbus 2009), I, p 454
geometry of a
descending
vault
intersecting
obliquely
Edward Cresy, An
Encyclopædia of Civil
Engineering, Historical,
Theoretical, and Practical
(2 vols in 1, Longman
Brown, London 1847), p
1443
Mausoleum of Theoderic,
Ravenna, c 526
view & drawings
Scala (1974)
Cecil Stewart, Early Christian, Byzantine
and Romanesque Architecture [Simpson's
History of Architectural Development]
(London 1954 [1905/8]), p 62
the masonry dome
L C Lancaster, Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome (CUP, Cambridge 2005), p 139
constructing a dome
drawing by E Rabasa in M A A Rodrίguez et al, 'Functionalism and Caprice in Stonecutting: the case of the Nativity
Chapel in Burgos Cathedral' in K-E Kurrer et al [eds], Procedings of the Third International Congress on Construction
History (3 vols, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus 2009), I, p 36
Nin-Gal Temple of Kurigalzu, Ur, c 1400 BC: reconstruction and plan
C L Woolley, 'Recent Excavations at Ur', Journal of the Royal Institute of British
Architects, XXXVII, 16 (21 June 1930), p 583
construction of a pitched brick dome, as used in early twentieth
century Egypt, with string used to maintain the radius
Judith McKenzie, The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt
c. 300 BC to AD 700 (New Haven [Connecticut] 2007), p 342
'Temple of
Mercury'
(actually a bath
building), Baiae
(now Baia, near
Naples), AD
early C1st:
interior
Frank Sear
'Temple of Mercury: view from above
Frank Sear
compression
tension
forces in domes
Mónica Morales-Segura, 'The Skylight in the Roman Baths: the Construction', in K-E Kurrer et al
[eds], Procedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History (3 vols,
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus 2009), III, pp 1061-2
compression and tension rings in a monolithic dome
L C Lancaster, Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome (CUP, Cambridge 2005), p 139
Roman concrete domes
'Temple of Minerva Medica', or nymphaeum in the Licinian Gardens C4th, view in 1825
Adam, Roman Building, p 190
'Temple de Rome appellé Galluso‘
[Temple of Minerva Medica]
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Traité Théorique et Pratique de l'Art de Bâtir
(6 vols, Paris 1812-17 [1812, 1814, 1814, nd, 1817, nd]), pl lxxxi
'Temple of Minerva Medica', or nymphaeum in
the Licinian Gardens C4th, plan & section
MUAS 13,935
'Temple of Minerva Medica', plan and part-isometric
Plommer, Ancient and Classical Architecture, p 362
a circular temple
the Pantheon,
Rome, AD 120-124
view & side elevation
photo © Paradoxplace.com
Bussagli, Rome, p 117
Pantheon
interior view
section
plan
MUAS 9,902
Henri Stierlin, Encyclopædia of
World Architecture (2 vols,
London 1977), I, p 81
Pantheon: section with suggested centering
Adam, Roman Building, p 185
Pantheon dome from below
Frank Sear
the Pantheon: details of the dome
MacDonald, The Pantheon, pl 84; Frank Sear
Pantheon, detail showing dome coffering with the surface stripped.
W C Loerke, 'A Rereading of the Interior Elevation of Hadrian's Rotunda', Journal of the
Society of Architectural Historians, XLIX (March 1990), p 34, fig 13
Pantheon,
Rome, half
section
Lynne C Lancaster,
Concrete Vaulted
Construction in Imperial
Rome (CUP, Cambridge
2005), p 62
Orthodox Baptistery,
Ravennna
Miles Lewis
Orthodox Baptistery
detail of the dome &
diagram showing the
hollow pot construction
Kostof, The Orthodox Baptistery
F W Deichmann, Ravenna:
Haupstadt des Spätantiken
Abendlandes vol II, Kommentar, 1
(Wiesbaden 1974), pl 19
the pumpkin or convoluted dome
octagonal umbrella dome, Baths of Baia
Jean-Pierre Adam [translated Anthony Matthews],
Roman Building Materials and Techniques (Indiana
UOP, Bloomington [Indiana] 1994), p 183
Nymphaeum in the Gardens of Sallust, Rome, AD 69-79
MUAS 12,748
Corinthian Oecus Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli
Andrew Hutson
Byzantine domes
the Mediterranean world in 528
(just after the death of Theodoric, 526)
McEvedy, Atlas of Medieval History, p 25
square corbel dome as
used by the Romans
J H Acland, Medieval
Structure: the Gothic Vault
(Toronto 1972), p 35
HH Sergios &
Bakchos
McKenzie, Alexandria and
Egypt, p 340
HH Sergios & Bakchos
cutaway isometric of the dome, longitudinal
section
Lewis, Architectrura, p 220
Lassus, Early Christian and Byzantine World, p 75
squinch & pumpkin dome, S Clement, Ankara
J G Davies, The Origin and Development of Early Christian Church Architecture (London 1952), pl V
pitched vault under construction in Afghanistan
Jean-Louis Bourgeois, Spectacular Vernacular: the
Adobe Tradition (New York 1996), p 54
Iranian square vault
Michell, Islamic World, p 140
Qal'eh-e
Doktar,
Firuzabad,
Iran, c AD
250: interior
showing a
squinch.
Curatola &
Scarcia, Art and
Architecture of
Persia, p 93
palace at Sarvistan [Sarbistan], Iran, c 770-1000: section showing corbelled dome.
Flandin & Coste, Voyage en Perse, Perse Ancienne (6 vols, no date)
Sarvestān Palace, plan & isometric reconstruction. Biers, Servestan, pls 5, 87
the squinch
the term does not refer to any one shape, but to the idea of spanning the
corner of a plan shape to bring it closer to a circle, eg a square to an
octagon, or an octagon to a sixteen-sided figure
R A Stevens, Building in History (London 1965), p 45
Talbot Hamlin, Forms and Functions of Twentieth-Century Architecture, I, The Elements of
Building (New York 1952), p 541
hippodrome, Jerash
[Gerasa], Jordan, C1st3rd: stepped vault.
multi-arched squinch
Miles Lewis; Stevens & Wheeldon,
Building in History, p 45
squinches
SS Pietro e Paolo,
Agro, Sicily, C12th
MUAS 12,577
Chateau of Chenonceau, France, 1513-21, later extended: multi-arched squinch
Miles Lewis
the conical
squinch
Richard Krautheimer,
Early Christian and
Byzantine Architecture
(Harmondsworth
[Middlesex] 1965), p
373; Stevens &
Wheeldon, Building in
History, p 45
Chateau of
Anet, by
Philibert de
l'Orme, 1547:
detail with
Cabinet du Roi
Giuseppe Fallacara,
Towards a Stereotomic
Design (3D Pierre, Rome
2007), p 30
Chateau of Anet,
reconstruction of
the Cabinet du
Roi
Fallacara, Towards a
Stereotomic Design, p 69
Chateau
of Anet:
geometry of the
squinch of the
Cabinet du Roi
Fallacara, Towards a
Stereotomic Design, pp 30, 62
Chateau
of Anet: setting-out of the squinch
Fallacara, Towards a Stereotomic Design, p 70
Basilica A, Resafe, Syria, before 520: reconstruction view
Soubhi Saouaf, Six tours in the Vicinity of Aleppo (Aleppo 1957), p 19
Basilica A, Resafe: detail of north sacristy, with a corbelled squinch
Miles Lewis
west basilica,
or Basilica of
the
Evangelists,
Alahan
Manastir,
Turkey late
C5th: detail of
a corbelled
squinch
Miles Lewis
the pendentive
the pendentive and
the squinch
V I Atroshenko & Judith Collins, The
Origins of the Romanesque (New York
1985), p 20
West Baths at Jerash, Jordan, AD C2nd: the dome
Miles Lewis
the pendentive
Stewart, Early Christian &c Architecture, p 50
pendentive at the West Baths, Jerash
building a pendentive at Craterre, France
Miles Lewis; Jean Dethier et al, Down to Earth (New York 1983), p 61
building of a dome on pendentives
Gargiulo & Bergamasco, ‘Earth in the Architecture’, p 1217
the pendentive
and the dome
R A Stevens & Wheeldon,
Building in History (London
1965), p 45
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia
by Anthemios of Tralles & Isodorus of Miletus, AD 532-7
Miles Lewis, Architectura, p 228
Hagia Sophia
cutaway view
George Mansell, Anatomy
of Architecture (London
1979, p 46
Hagia Sophia: interior
Lewis, Architectura, p 229
alternative
dome
construction
methods
Miles Lewis
Hagia Sophia, diagonal section of the original dome, by Choisy
Swift, Roman Sources of Christian Art, p 123
H Sophia: part section of the original dome showing the ledge to
support the centering, from Choisy
Arce, 'Umayyad Arches’, p 200
the design
Hagia Sophia
by Anthemios of
Tralles & Isodorus of
Miletus, AD 532-7
view from above
X B i Altet, The Early Middle Ages
from Late Antiquity to A.D. 1000
(Köln 1997), p 23
Hagia Sophia
the
arrangement
of the domes
MUAS 12,209
Hagia Sophia, isometric diagram, with the dome removed
Auguste Choisy, Histoire de l’Architecture (2 vols, Paris 1890)
H Sophia: plan of
dome, dated
[clockwise from the
top] C6th; C14th;
C6th; C10th
Christina Maranci, 'The
Architect Trdat', Journal
of the Society of
Architectural Historians,
LXII, 3 (September
2003), p 295
thrust of the old dome
thrust of the
New dome
Hagia Sophia, longitudinal section
modified from Swift, Roman Sources of Christian Art, p 122
Hagia Sophia, transverse sections with the old and the new dome
after Mackenzie, Alexandria, p 848
weight of
the buttress
thrust of
the dome
resultant
force
Hagia Sophia, transverse section with buttresses
Swift, Roman Sources of Christian Art, p 82
Hagia Sophia from the south
Miles Lewis
Hagia Sophia
interior detail at
ground level,
with sloping shaft
Andrew Hutson
Hagia Sophia
details of the
conches and
aisle
Miles Lewis
MUAS 15,610, 4580
H Sophia,
isometric
diagram
showing tie rods
of the aisle and
gallery, after
Lethaby &
Swainson
R P Wilcox, Timber and
Iron Reinforcement in
Early Buildings (London
1981), p 57
H Sophia, part plans of the aisle and gallery,
showing tie rods, after Lethaby & Swainson
Wilcox, Timber and Iron Reinforcement, p 58
compound domes & drums
simple & compound domes
Stewart, Early Christian &c Architecture, p 51
the dome & drum
R A Stevens & Wheeldon, Building in
History (London 1965), p 45
Stewart, Early Christian &c
Architecture, p 52
pendentive
and drum in a
Byzantine
church at
Mistra
George Tibbits
Church of the Convent of the Assumption, Daphni, Greece, c 1080
Hannibal 2/306
Kapnikarea, Athens, C11th
Miles Lewis
Gensac Church,
C12th
Architectural Association,
Charente, pl 34
Byzantine and French methods of dome construction
Stewart, Early Christian &c Architecture, p 96
St Hripsime, Vagharshapat, Armenia, AD 618
interior of the dome; detail of the corner lobe
Miles Lewis; Mango, Byzantine Architecture, facing p 113
MOSLEM BRICK
VAULTING
domed house, Abu
Ghal Ghal , northern
Syria, showing
construction
Miles Lewis
Harran, southern
Turkey
the Fortress, a former
temple to the Sabian
moon god, rebuilt at
vrioustimes
a pile of baked bricks
Miles Lewis
Harran
three-domed
house
six-domed house
Miles Lewis
aerial view
of houses,
Harran
South Eastern
Anatolia and the
Gap Region, no
page)
house with
broken dome,
Harran
Miles Lewis
brick arch, Harran
Miles Lewis
modern construction of
arches over wooden
formwork, Kusadasi,
Turkey
W L Macdonald, The Pantheon
(London 1976), pl 41
vault construction at Dehno, Iran, step : setting out the vault profile
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
vault construction at Dehno, Iran, step 2 stringing out the vault shape
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
vault construction at Dehno, Iran, step 3
constructing the barrel vault]
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
vault construction at Dehno, Iran, step 4: closing the barrel vault
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
vault construction at Dehno, Iran, step 5: setting out the pendentives
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
vault construction at Dehno, Iran, step 6: completed pendentive
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
vault construction at Dehno, Iran, step 7: completing the dome base
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
vault construction at Dehno, Iran, step 8: completing the dome
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
vaulting void at Meybod, Iran
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
construction of the 'space-filling
structure' at Meybod, Iran
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
paving over the 'space-filling
structure' at Meybod, Iran
Mohammad Reza Bazldjou
view underneath an
unspecified dome, Iran
Environmental Communications:
Islamic Architecture in Persia, 4
Bazaar,
Isphahan:
brick vault
with tile ribs
Acland, The
Gothic Vault, p
224
iwans: Friday Mosque, back of an iwan, showing ribbing;
Masjid-i-Vakil, or Regent's Mosque, Shiraz. ?C13th
Environmental Communications: Islamic Architecture in Persia,
11; Photoscope
the false dome
Mosque at Aziran,
Iran, late C15th,
showing the external
and internal domes
Miles Lewis
Baptistery, Pisa, by
Dioti Salvi, 11531278, with 14th
century additions
unspecified: slide 31
Baptistery, Pisa: 12th & 14th century elevations & sections
E H Swift, Roman Sources of Christian Art (New York 1951),
after Rouhault de Fleury, Les Monuments du Pise
the Oljeitu Mausoleum, Soltaniyeh, Iran, c 1310
Miles Lewis
Friday Mosque, Yazd, Iran: dome of 1324-8
Miles Lewis
Mir Chaqmaq,
Masjid-i Jami’,
Yazd, Iran,1437,
section
Lisa Golombek, Donald
Wilber, et al, The Timurid
Architecture of Iran and
Turan (2 vols, Princeton
UP, Princeton [New
Jersey] 1988), p 146
Duomo, Florence,
dome by Filippo
Brunelleschi,
(1417-)1420-36:
cutaway isometric
L H Heydenreich &
Wolfgang Lotz, Architecture
in Italy 1400 to 1600
(Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, 1974), p 3
view underneath
an unspecified
dome, Iran
Environmental
Communications: Islamic
Architecture in Persia, 4
corbelled brick squinch at the Mausoleum, Aziran, Iran
Miles Lewis
tri-lobed squinch at
the Mausoleum of
Umm Qulthum,
Cairo, no date: a
proto-muqarnas
detail
George Michell [ed],
Architecture of the Islamic
World: its History and Social
Meaning (New York 1978), p
142
Friday Mosque, Esfahan, Gunbad-i-Khaki or Brown Dome, 1088
Curatola & Scarcia, Art and Architecture of Persia, p 93
Turkish muqarnas
Agzikara Hani Caravanserai, east of Aksaray,
Turkey, mid-C13th: hall at the north end
doorway of the turbe at Gevas
Miles Lewis
rear of an Iwan, Madraseh of the Mother of the Shah, Isfahan
Michell, Islamic World, p 126
muqarnas vault
of stucco,
suspended by
timber hangers
[Michell, Architecture of
the Islamic World, p 142
Friday Mosque,
Isfahan, C11th12th: north-west
iwan
Country Life, 13 January
1972, p 87
Friday Mosque, Isfahan, maquarnas of an iwan
Lewis, Architectura, p 29
College of the
Mother of the
Shah, Isfahan,
1706-1714:
detail of the
tilework
Country Life, 13
January 1972, p 89
Royal Mosque,
Isfahan, begun c
1612, completed
after 1726
Country Life, 13
January 1972, p 89
Muqarnas at the
entrance to the
Madrasa al-Firdaus,
Aleppo, mid-C12th,
and its derivation
from sixteen and
thirty-two sided
polygons
Henri Stierlin, Islam
Volume I: Early Achitecture
from Baghdad to Cordoba
(Taschen, Köln 1996), p
218
the Hasht
Behesht,
Isfahan, c 1670
Country Life, 20 January
1972, p 156
Shrine of Imam
Reza, Mashad,
Iran: portal
vault with
mosaic faience
stalactite
vaulting
Pope, Persian
Architecture, p 168
Cappella Palatina, Palermo, 1132-43: interior looking west; ceiling
Ediz Urso, Palermo, no A-56 & unnumbered
Cappella Palatina: detail of the stalactite ceiling
Ediz Urso, Palermo, no 1207
ribs of the Roman cryptoporticus, Izmir, Turkey, AD c 150
Miles Lewis
cross ribbed vault, Qasr Harane [Kharana], Jordan, c 710
Ignacio Arce, 'Umayyad Arches’, p 197
ribbed vaults of the Bab al Mardun Mosque, Toledo, Spain, late C11th
Arce, ‘Diaphragm Arches’, p 232
cross-walls
constructed
above
vaulting
Michell, Islamic
World, p 141
Masjed-e Jameh, Esfahan, 12th-14th century vaulting
Blunt, Isfahan, p 34 ; Pope, Persian Architecture, p 112