rib

Examples of rib in the following topics:

• Samoa

  • For males, it is called the Pe'a and consists of intricate and geometrical patterns tattooed that cover areas from the knees up towards the ribs .
  • The traditional tattoo for males is called the Pe'a, and it consists of intricate and geometrical patterns covering the knees up toward the ribs.

• The Gothic Revival

  • In the vault, the pointed arch can be seen in three dimensions where the ribbed vaulting meets in the center of the ceiling of each bay.
  • This ribbed vaulting is another distinguishing feature of Gothic architecture.
  • The windows, tracery, carvings, and ribs make up a bewildering display of decoration where almost every surface is decorated with a profusion of shapes and patterns.

• Ravenna

  • The cross-ribbed vault in the presbytery is richly ornamented with mosaic festoons of leaves, fruit, and flowers, converging on a crown encircling the Lamb of God .
  • The cross-ribbed vault in the presbytery is richly ornamented with mosaic festoons of leaves, fruit and flowers, converging on a crown encircling the Lamb of God.

• Gothic Architecture: The Abbey Church of Saint Denis

  • To achieve his aims, Suger's masons drew on the new elements that had evolved or been introduced to Romanesque architecture: the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, the ambulatory with radiating chapels, the clustered columns supporting ribs springing in different directions, and the flying buttresses, which enabled the insertion of large clerestory windows.

• Gothic Cathedrals

  • The increase in the use of large windows during the Gothic period is directly related to the use of the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, and the flying buttress.

• Architecture of the Early Christian Church

  • The cross-ribbed vault in the presbytery is richly ornamented with mosaic festoons of leaves, fruit, and flowers, converging on a crown encircling the Lamb of God.
  • The cross-ribbed vault in the presbytery is richly ornamented with mosaic festoons of leaves, fruit and flowers, converging on a crown encircling the Lamb of God.

• Characteristics of Romanesque Architecture

  • Vaults of stone or brick took on several different forms and showed marked development during the period, evolving into the pointed, ribbed arch characteristic of Gothic architecture.
  • Durham Cathedral has decorated masonry columns alternating with piers of clustered shafts supporting the earliest pointed high ribs.

• Art in Western Europe

  • The "Robin Hood Cave Horse" (previously known as the Ochre Horse) is a fragment of rib bone engraved with a horse's head, discovered in 1876 in the Robin Hood Cave in Creswell Crags, Derbyshire.

• Cathedrals

  • The style evolved to one that was less heavy, had larger windows, lighter-weight vaulting supported on stone ribs, and above all, the pointed arch that is the defining characteristic of the style now known as Gothic.

• Glass

  • 'Blown glass' refers only to individually hand-made items but can include the use of molds for shaping, ribbing, and spiking to produce decorative bubbles.