Explore: Baldachins (architecture)

more correctly called a ciborium when it is sufficiently architectural in form. Baldachins are often supported on columns, especially when they are disconnected

either side of the baldachin. The bronze and gilded baldachin was the first of Bernini's works to combine sculpture and architecture and represents an

Rennes, and the Saint-Sauveur Basilica in Dinan. These are usually called baldachins (not at Angers), and many have certainly departed from the traditional

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure

bə-ROK, US: /bəˈroʊk/ bə-ROHK, French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished

were derived from the tent and preserved as tabernacles, ciboria and baldachins (Figs. 144–151). These tent forms, however, could be puffed-up and bulbous

Ephemeral architecture is the art or technique of designing and building structures that are transient, that last only a short time. Ephemeral art has

Traditional Japanese architecture uses post-and-lintel structures – vertical posts, connected by horizontal beams. Rafters are traditionally the only structural

famous landmarks. The architecture of Vatican City, dominated by religious architecture, is characterized by several architectural styles such as Roman

forms such as nodding ogees with a miniaturized vocabulary of niches, baldachins, and pinnacles to produce dynamic façades with a new sense of depth at