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Lunette over the main door of the Luxembourg Palace in Paris Charles Sprague Pearce, Rest (1896). Mural in a lunette in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. A lunette (French lunette , 'little moon') is a crescent- or half-moon–shaped or semi-circular architectural space or feature, variously filled with ...
The lunette spatial region in the upper portion of steles, became common for steles as a prelude to a stele's topic. [ clarification needed ] Its major use was from ancient Egypt in all the various categories of steles: funerary, Victory steles, autobiographical, temple, votive, etc.
The lunette, containing the consecrated Host, is placed in the centre of a vessel known as a monstrance, or ostensory, which can be mounted or carried within the church. The lunette is often kept in another object, sometimes called a lunette or lunula case, which is usually a round box often on a small stand, serving to hold the Host upright. [3]
Earlier this year a picture re-emerged that showed what Jesus might have looked like as a kid. Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from ...
Stunning drone footage showcases the frost patterns that resemble flowers on a frozen lake in northwestern China.
In fortification, a lunette was originally an outwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion standing by itself without curtains on either side.
In almost every shot of Netflix's romantic period drama "Bridgerton," viewers can find one thing: flowers. Taking a deeper look at their placement, style and colors can reveal a story within the ...
Behind this glass is a holder made of gilded metal, called a lunette or lunula, which holds the host securely in place. When not in the monstrance, the host in its lunula is placed in a special standing container, called a standing pyx, in the Tabernacle. Before the current design, earlier "little shrines" or reliquaries of various shapes and ...