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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.
Typically, the number of cusps can be three , four , five (cinquefoil [1]), or a larger number (multifoil). [2] The word comes from Latin folium which meaning “leaf.” [ 3 ] Foil motifs may be used as part of the heads and tracery of window lights , complete windows themselves, the underside of arches, in heraldry , within panelling, and as ...
The architects of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, at the end of 10th century AD, broke the tradition by mixing horseshoe arches and multifoil arches at the Villaviciosa Chapel . [2] The creators of the Taifa mixtilinear arch took a hint from this arrangement (and the similar ones at Mosque of Cristo de la Luz), producing early designs at Aljaferia.
The intrados of the cusped arch (also known as multifoil arch, polyfoil arch, polylobed arch, and scalloped arch) includes several independent circle segments in a scalloped arrangement. These primarily decorative arches are common in Islamic architecture and Northern European Late Gothic, can be found in Romanesque architecture. [61]
Polylobed (or multifoil) arches, have their earliest precedents in Fatimid architecture in Ifriqiya and Egypt and had also appeared in Andalusi architecture such as the Aljaferia palace. In the Almoravid and Almohad periods, this type of arch was further refined for decorative functions while horseshoe arches continued to be standard elsewhere.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... stucco over the walls of various buildings in Marinid and Nasrid architecture, ... interlacing multifoil ...
Templo del Maestro was designed by Joseph O'Kelly in the Beaux-Arts style of Classical Revival architecture; it particularly integrates elements inspired by Moorish and Mughal architecture, evident in its multifoil arches, courtyard arcades and geometrical façade ornamentations.
The trefoil arch. A trefoil arch, or three-foiled cusped arch (occasionally trilobite arch, no connection to an actual trilobite), is an arch incorporating the shape or outline of a trefoil – three overlapping circles. [1]