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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 ...
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.
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.
Stunning drone footage showcases the frost patterns that resemble flowers on a frozen lake in northwestern China.
A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan. [1] It is placed over another window or a doorway, [2] [3] and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner of a sunburst.
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]
Anyway, check out the full lyrics to “Flowers” (via Genius) below in case you want to scream-sing along in the shower, etc., etc. We were good, we were gold Kind of dream that can’t be sold
With or without the help of US designers, there’s no doubt she strives to look her best — with the Washington Post’s fashion writer Rachel Tashjian noting last April that the incoming first ...