SQUINCH

in architecture, a piece of construction used for filling in the upper angles of a square room so as to form a proper base to receive an octagonal or spherical dome. It was the primitive solution of this problem, the perfected one being eventually provided by the pendentive. Squinches may be formed by masonry built out from the angle in corbeled courses, by filling the corner with a vise placed diagonally, or by building an arch or a number of corbeled arches diagonally across the corner. In Islamic architecture, especially in Persia, where it may have been invented, the squinch took the form of a succession of corbeled stalactites. It was also commonly used in the early churches of Europe and the East.

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books on: Squinch  - 101 results

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1.
Roman Sources of Christian Art
Book by Emerson H. Swift; Columbia University Press, 1951
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine, Architecture, Roman, Church Decoration And Ornament
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Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia - Vol. 1
Book by Marylin Martin Rhie; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Art, Buddhist--Asia, Central, Art, Buddhist--China, Art, Central Asian, Art, Chinese
...painting, Tokhungri, North Korea, dated 408 A.D. Fig. 3.61 Bronze Bodhisattva (Maitreya?), from Taxila Fig. 3.62 Buddhas in squinch arches, southeast corner, Cave 129, Bamiyan Fig. 3.63 Detail of one of the seated 1,000 Buddhas, Cave 152, Bamiyan Fig...
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World Architecture: An Illustrated History
Book by H. R. Hitchcock, Seton Lloyd, David Talbot Rice, Norbert Lynton, Andrew Boyd, Andrew Carden, Philip Rawson, John Jacobus; McGraw-Hill, 1963
Subjects: Architecture--History
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The Arts and Man
Book by Raymond S. Stites; Whittlesey House, McGraw-hill Book Company, Inc., 1940
Subjects: Art--History
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Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
Book by Andrew Petersen; Routledge, 1999
...units made of brick with semi-circular squinches. A better preserved example is the Shahr-i...ceilings painted to look like a dome set on squinches. Another famous building is the Peqin...on an octagonal drum resting on plain squinches. Both the mihrab and the dome are decorated...
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Joanne Johnston Francis
Journal article by Green Pastures; Feminist Studies, Vol. 16, 1990
Subjects: Feminism
...FRANCIS GREEN PASTURES Hanner opens up her eyes just a squinch at a time to keep from seeing the bare spot on the floor where...it is an orange-topped stake pegged in the ground. Frances squinches up her nose and squints at Hanner. "They are going to take...
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"Protection in My Mouf": Self, Voice, and Community in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Dust Tracks on a Road' and 'Mules and Men
Journal article by Lynn Domina; African American Review, Vol. 31, 1997
Subjects: African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dust Tracks on a Road (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mules and Men (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...crib of negroism. From the earliest rocking of my cradle, I had known about the capers Brer Rabbit is apt to cut and what the Squinch Owl says from the house top. But it was fitting me like a tight chemise. I couldnt see it for wearing it. It was only when...
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Conflict and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men
Journal article by Susan Meisenhelder; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 109, 1996
Subjects: Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...of negroism. From the earliest rocking of my cradle, I had known about the capers Brer Rabbit is apt to cut and what the Squinch Owl says from the house top. But it was fitting me like a tight chemise. I couldnt see it for wearing it. It was only when...
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Gadrooned-Dome's Muqarnas-Corbel: Analysis and Decoding Historical Drawings
Journal article by Mohammad Ali Jalal Yaghan; Architectural Science Review, Vol. 46, 2003
Subjects: Architectural drawing--Criticism and interpretation, Domes (Structural elements)--Design and construction, Domes (Structural elements)--History, Domes--Design and construction, Domes--History
...responsible for the seemingly different local identities of muqarnas forms in many parts of the Islamic lands (compare the early squinch-muqarnas of the Iranian sphere with its Egyptian counterpart, they both have the same geometrical form with different elaboration...
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Creating Ethnography: Zora Neale Hurston and Lydia Cabrera
Journal article by Lynda Hoffman-Jeep; African American Review, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Cabrera, Lydia--Criticism and interpretation, Ethnic folklore--Comparative analysis, Ethnic folklore--Criticism and interpretation, Ethnology--Research, Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation
...about the capers Brer Rabbit is apt to cut and what the Squinch Owl says from the house top. But it was fitting me like a tight...
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Tar Pit
Magazine article by David Barber; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, June 2003
Subjects: Tar Pit (Poem)
...If your eyes played over it, you saw stained glass. If you clutched the cyclone fence, your feet would squinch. And didnt it give off a stench like everyones garage? And werent you the one who dreamed your own...
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Unlimited Potential or Uncertain Peril? Genomes, "Genes For," and GMOs
Magazine article by Kenneth W. Krause; The Humanist, Vol. 69, July 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Genomes and What to Make of Them (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life is Making Us Sick (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Genetics and DNA (Hill Wang, 2009). The asexually reproducing Squinch suffer from a heritable disease threatening the existence of...international HapMap project. Unfortunately, we never learn whether the Squinch can save their first family--assuming they really want to...
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A Fan despite Himself
Magazine article by James Wallenstein; The Antioch Review, Vol. 59, Fall 2001
Subjects: Short stories
...looked up a few of the items that he could make out. An article on masonry assumed the readers familiarity with terms like "squinch" and "corbeling"; botany, with "umbel" and "corymb," "bract" and "involucre"; irrigation, with the basic principles of leverage...
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Royal Pain: Further Adventures of Rick Renard. A Short Story
Magazine article by Christopher Buckley; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, April 2004
...tend to swing open. Reg Gibbins, I dont need to explain, is the award-winning Australian director who was adapting Alistair Squinch novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic wars. The second movie in the series, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, was in...
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Life under Islamic Rule - Persian Cultural Traditions Became an Important Part of Islamic Civilization, but Today Iran Struggles to Find Its Identity, Torn between the Desire for Democratic Progress and Adherence to the Laws of Islam
Magazine article by Eva Harnik; World and I, Vol. 17, February 2002
Subjects: Culture--Iran, Iran--Description and travel, Islam--Social aspects, Manners and customs--Iran
...it dates "only" from the eighteenth century, it incorporates many architectural elements of the last thousand years. It is a squinch-domed structure with amazing honeycomb woodwork, arches, and alcoves. An echo on the ground floor travels to the sixth floor...
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Advocates Urge Field Burn Warning
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 22, 2008
...the air sacs and cause long-term damage like cancer and stuff, but it also irritates those teeny tiny airways and make them squinch (up), which is what happens in asthma, and you cant get the air in and out of the lungs," Hendrickson said. However, despite...


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encyclopedia articles on: Squinch  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Squinch
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SQUINCH in architecture, a piece of construction used for...perfected one being eventually provided by the pendentive. Squinches may be formed by masonry built out from the angle in corbeled...especially in Persia, where it may have been invented, the squinch took the form of a succession of corbeled stalactites...
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Pendentive
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...it can be received by the piers beneath. Prior to the pendentives development, the device of corbeling or the use of the squinch in the corners of a room had been employed. The first attempts at pendentives were made by the Romans, but full achievement...
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Dome
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Byzantine builders of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople (a.d. 532 37). The other solution to placing a dome over a square was the squinch , which in the form of stalactites was to receive superb expression in Islamic architecture. Under Byzantine influence the...
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Islamic Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...In Iran few Islamic buildings erected before the 10th cent. are still standing. Sassanid building techniques, such as the squinch, were combined with the mosque form (see Persian art and architecture ). Sassanid influence is also strong in many Umayyad...


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