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TRIFORIUM [6 records]

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Record 1 2018-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architecture
DEF

In church architecture, an upper storey over an aisle, opening on to the nave.

DEF

Upper storey above the aisle of a church, looking through arches to the nave and generally with outer windows.

CONT

The kind of proportion which was chosen in 1062 for the Abbaye aux Hommes at Caen recurs in a number of major English churches : the distinguishing feature is the large gallery above the aisles, often referred to as the "triforium gallery" but better termed the tribune.

OBS

Gallery... Also called a tribune and often, wrongly, a triforium.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture
DEF

Étage supérieur formant une large galerie au-dessus des nefs latérales.

CONT

Au-dessus du premier bas-côté de la nef et du chœur règnent les tribunes, larges, voûtées et bien éclairées.

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

... the upper window range of a basilican building above the arcade and triforium.

OBS

In Roman architecture many great halls were lighted with clerestories.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

Suite de fenêtres ou de baies libres, ajourant un même niveau d'élévation, sur la longueur de plusieurs travées.

OBS

Ex : fenêtres hautes du vaisseau central d'une église; fenêtre éclairant un triforium.

OBS

clair-étage : [employé dans le cas d'un] triforium dont le mur de fond est ajouré.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estilos arquitectónicos
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Record 3 1994-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

a gallery or open space forming an upper story to the aisle of a church and typically constituting an arcaded story between the nave arches and clerestory.

OBS

Plural: triforia.

OBS

The term is often wrongly applied to a TRIBUNE or GALLERY.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

Galerie pourtournant le vaisseau des églises médiévales, au-dessus des grandes baies vitrées.

Spanish

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Record 4 1988-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
OBS

Small arcades of the triforium opened onto the nave, and in some northern churches the outer wall was fenestrated to permit ventilation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

Ouverture mettant en communication les tribunes avec la nef.

OBS

Le triforium est formé de deux ou trois baies surmontées d'une voussure faisant office d'arc de décharge (...)

OBS

pluriel : triforiums

DEF

Claire-voie de la galerie étroite ménagée autour du vaisseau central d'une église médiévale, au-dessus des tribunes ou des arcades pour desservir les combes latéraux et faciliter la pose de tentures décoratives.

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Art History and Theory
  • Architectural Styles
CONT

Chartres, as rebuilt from 1194, turned Early Gothic into High Gothic. Its quadripartite rib vaults, tall arcades, tall clerestory windows, flying buttresses, and its replacement of the gallery by a low triforium band all convey a sense of greater coherence, a yet quicker rhythm and yet more open walling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire et théorie de l'art
  • Styles en architecture
CONT

Le gothique classique (XIIIe et XIVe siècles) : allégement des murs plus prononcé, tribunes supprimées, triforium ajouré. C'est l'époque des plus grandes réalisations gothiques : St-Denis transformé par Pierre de Montreuil, Chartres, Reims, Amiens, Paris, Strasbourg.

Key term(s)
  • haut gothique

Spanish

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Record 6 1983-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

a wall at the side of the nave, choir or transept, having separated components.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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