| LC control no. | sh2020005833 |
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| Topical heading | Squinches |
| Variant(s) | Arches, Squinch Arches, Trumpet Squinch arches Trumpet arches |
| See also | Architecture--Details |
| Found in | Work cat: Squinch in Ghazi Tughluq's tomb, Delhi, India, 1965-2000, via University of Washington digital collections, International Collections, June 3, 2020. Art & architecture thesaurus online, June 3, 2020: (squinches; SN Arches or corbeled transitional elements that span the interior corners of a square or polygonal structure serving to support a circular or polygonal superstructure; UF arches, squinch; arches, trumpet; squinch arches; trumpet arches. BT structural elements) Curl, J.S. A dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture, 2015 (squinch: see dome; under dome: domes usually provide a covering for a square- or rectangular-planned building or compartment, so adjustments are made to facilitate the transition from the square to the circular, elliptical, or polygonal base of the cupola or dome. This is achieved by means of pendentives (fragments of a sail-vault resembling a species of concave, distorted, almost triangular spandrels, rising up from the corner at the top of the right-angled compartment to the circular or elliptical base of the drum or cupola) or squinches (small arch or series of parallel arches of increasing radius spanning the angle of the square compartment) Wikpedia, June 3, 2020 (squinch; a construction filling in (or rounding off) the upper angles of a square room so as to form a base to receive an octagonal or spherical dome) |
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