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ARCADE, in architecture, a range of arches, supported either by columns or piers; isolated in the case of those separating the nave of a church from the aisles, or forming the front of a covered ambulatory, as in the cloisters in Italy and Sicily, round the Du ...

ARCADELT, or ARCHAOELT, JACOB d. ISM-C. 1556), a Netherlands composer, of the early part of the Golden Age. In 1 539 he left a position at Florence to teach the choristers of St Peter's, Rome, and became one of the papal singers in 1 540. He was a prolific chu ...

ARCADIA, a district of Greece, forming the central plateau of Peloponnesus. Shut off from the coast lands on all sides by mountain barriers, which rise in the northern peaks of Eryman thus (mod. Olanos) to 7400, of Cyllene (Ziria) to 7900, in the southern corn

ARDEA. a town of the Kutuli in Latium, 3 m. from the S.W. coast, where its harbour (Caslrum Inui) lay, at the mouth of the stream now known as Fosso dell' Incastro, and 23 m. S. of Rome by the Via Ardeatina. It was founded, according to legend, either by a son

TARDE, GABRIEL (1843-1004), French sociologist, was born at Sarlat (Dordogne) in 1843. Entering the legal profession, he was for some time a juge d'instruction in his native town, becoming afterwards head of the statistical department of the ministry of justic

... Paul Abadie. The facade, flanked by two towers with cupolas, is decorated with arcades filled in with statuary and sculpture, the whole representing the Lost Judgment. The crossing is surmounted by a dome, and the extremity of the north transept by a fine squ ...

... usy of his fame as an author, and his abundant imagination was always ARCACHON— ARCADE at the service of his friends. In 1712 appeared " Law is a Bottomless Pit, Exemplify'd in the case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog and Lewis Baboon, who spent a ...

... ant' Ambrogio ,"£? ^iui i_ I were divided in the usual way with ! *^^T ^^ / ^"" arcades, and were covered with open timber roofs. In the rebuilding of the church (fig. 35) the nave (38 ft. wide) was divided into four square bays, and compound piers of large di ...

... s all the churches follow the basilican plan, with nave and aisles separated by arcades, the arches of which are carried' by columns, four arches on each side in the smaller churches, ten in the largest. The churches are all orientated, and have generally a se ...

... and had a gallery 520 ft. long overlooking the sea. The two main streets, with arcades on each side and crossing one another, divided the whole palace into four sections. One of these streets crossed from gate to gate, the other from the north gate led to the ...

... its magnificent frieze of winged angels in relief with a painted background of arcades and other accessories, is the most beautiful composition of the Renaissance. Michelozzo's first work was the Dominican monastery and church of San Marco at Florence (143014 ...

... mpus Martius at Rome, where an elaborate structure, usually in three stories of arcades,1 took the place of 1 Vitruvius prescribes for the Roman theatre a portico running round the interior of the auditorium on the level of the topmost row of seats; remains of ...

... ilding of the old bakery, occupying the site of the present library; it has two arcades of Saracenic arches and a fine row of battlements. Other specimens still in existence are the municipal buildings, Palazzo Loredan and Palazzo Farsetti — if, indeed, these ...