intrados

The interior and lower line or curve of an arch is known as the intrados.

The word is sometimes used to refer to the under-side or inner curve of the arch itself (more properly, the intrados).

The late Gothic ceased to use even the framework and employed the sloping intrados alone, without further ornament.

A firm believer that "dance is the art of motion, not emotion," he sees "Intrados" as something of a departure.

Brick quoins decorate the piers and intrados.

The elaboration undergone by the tracery was also shared by the shafts of the windows and intrados.

In fact, nonarchitects will find themselves consulting the handy glossary when words like "chamfered" and "intrados" come up.

It has 4 berths with a total length of 645 metres at the extrados and 296 meters at the intrados.

Up to the twelfth century the windows of the Romesque churches had small openings for light, a sloping intrados, and an inclined sill.

In the further development these round shafts received small bases and capitals, the intrados was divided into rectangular intervals in which small columns were set.

Gothic art adopted this framework, merely changing the round arch into a pointed one, and later replacing the rectangular intervals of the intrados by flutings.

The flimsy body-hugging fleshings of that era have been transformed into silver tank suits for the two barelegged soloists of "Intrados."

The dictionary definition of "Intrados" is the interior curve of an arch, and for all the term's Latin sound the dictionary in question is American.

The shape of the arch is the result of numerous irregularities produced by the deformation of the intrados (the inner line of the arch).

The latter's painted intrados has geometrical and rosettas decorations, and creates the illusionistic effect of a Greek-cross plan.

Along with its exterior wall, a trullo's interior room and vault intrados were often rendered with lime plaster and whitewashed for protection against drafts.

Mr. Nikolais devised a two-ring circus in "Intrados," one of four works the company offered Wednesday night at the Joyce Theater.

In performing his calculations Nicholson considered the arch barrel to be made from one ring of stones and of negligible thickness and therefore he developed only the intrados.

It consists of an airfoil, vertical and grossly ovoidal tube, with a mobile flap which improves the separation between the intrados and extrados.

Although the aqueduct still exists, and is structurally sound, years of neglect led to water leakage through the joints, and the spiral construction can no longer be seen, the surface of the intrados having been rendered.

While the intrados of a "true" skew arch is smooth and cylindrical, the intrados of this type of "false" skew arch has a stepped appearance.

Mr. Nikolais's current creative fervor will be represented in the Joyce repertory by "Intrados," in which the choreographer continues his explorations of perspective, illusion and the play of abstract form and light.

Inside, the intrados of the great triumphal arch is decorated with fifteen mosaic medallions, depicting Jesus Christ, the twelve Apostles and Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius, the sons of Saint Vitale.

Flanked on this new program by two exceptionally danced works -"Mechanical Organ" by Mr. Nikolais and "The Station" by Mr. Louis -"Intrados" is a work whose title, for once, is actually relevant to the choreography.