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Quatrefoil above the west door of Croyland Abbey showing in relief scenes from the life of Saint Guthlac Quatrefoil window at the St. Petrus parish church in Peterslahr, Germany A quatrefoil (anciently caterfoil ) [ 1 ] is a decorative element consisting of a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of four partially overlapping ...
Basin-like quatrefoil sculpture at La Blanca (Monument 3). Diameter 2.1m. Monument 3 was discovered in La Blanca Mound 9, in a residential zone thought to be largely or completely elite. Excavations of the mound initially revealed domestic features such as floors, burials. Monument 3 is unique in Mesoamerican archaeology.
Multifoil arches in Aljafería, Zaragoza, Spain. A foil is an architectural device based on a symmetrical rendering of leaf shapes, defined by overlapping circles of the same diameter that produce a series of cusps to make a lobe.
The fourfold version of an architectural trefoil is a quatrefoil. A simple trefoil shape in itself can be symbolic of the Trinity, [1] while a trefoil combined with an equilateral triangle was also a moderately common symbol of the Christian Trinity during the late Middle Ages in some parts of Europe, similar to a barbed quatrefoil. Two forms ...
Multifoil arch in the Aljafería, Zaragoza, Spain. A multifoil arch (or polyfoil arch), also known as a cusped arch, [1] [2] polylobed arch, [3] [4] or scalloped arch, [5] is an arch characterized by multiple circular arcs or leaf shapes (called foils, lobes, or cusps) that are cut into its interior profile or intrados.
A quatrefoil (four leaf) is a decorative element of four partially overlapping circles. Quatrefoil may also refer to: Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel, a 1950 book by James Barr; Quatrefoil Library, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. Quatrefoil reentry, a type of cardiac arrhythmia
Description: One form of an architectural/symbolic "quatrefoil", made of four overlapping circles. In the version of the quatrefoil shown, the circles are pulled almost as far apart as they can be and still have the circumferences of the innermost circular white areas intersect.
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