blind arcade

(noun)

A series of arches, often used in Romanesque and Gothic buildings, that has no actual openings and has no load-bearing function, and that is applied to the surface of a wall as a decorative element.

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Examples of blind arcade in the following topics:

  • Ottonian Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

    • The central body of the church has the nave with two aisles sided by two towers characteristic of Carolingian architecture, but it also displays novelties anticipating Romanesque architecture, including the alternation of pillars and columns (a common feature in later Saxon churches), semi-blind arcades in galleries on the nave, and column capitals decorated with stylized leaves of acanthus and human heads .

  • Characteristics of Romanesque Architecture

    • Romanesque design is also characterized by the presence of arches and openings, arcades, columns, and vaults and roofs.
    • The arcade of a cloister is typically of a single stage; the arcade that divides the nave and aisles in a church, however, is typically of two stages, with a third stage of window openings known as the clerestory rising above them.
    • External arcades are frequently called "blind arcades," with only a wall or a narrow passage behind them.
    • The Collegiate Church of Nivelles, Belgium uses fine shafts of Belgian marble to define alternating blind openings and windows.
    • The facade of Notre Dame du Puy, le Puy en Velay, France, has a more complex arrangement of diversified arches: doors of varying widths, blind arcading, windows, and open arcades.

  • Gothic Cathedrals

    • Gothic openings such as doorways, windows, arcades, and galleries have pointed arches.
    • Rows of pointed arches upon delicate shafts form a typical wall decoration known as a blind arcade.

  • Norman Architecture

    • The masonry is decorated only with small bands of sculpture, perhaps used as blind arcading.

  • Architecture of the Holy Roman Empire

    • German buildings from this period include Lorsch Abbey, which combines elements of the Roman triumphal arch (including arch-shaped passageways and half-columns) with the vernacular Teutonic heritage (including baseless triangles of the blind arcade and polychromatic masonry).

  • Human Sex-Linked Disorders

  • Experiments exercises

    • (c) Patients were blinded.
    • (d) Double-blind with respect to the researchers evaluating the patients, but the nurses who briefly interacted with patients during the distribution of the medication were not blinded.
    • We could say the study was partly double-blind.
    • The patients were randomly assigned to treatment groups and were blinded, so we would expect about an equal number of patients in each group to not adhere to the treatment.

  • Illustrated Books in the Early Middle Ages

    • The decoration of the first eight pages of the canon tables is heavily influenced by early Gospel Books from the Mediterranean, where it was traditional to enclose the tables within an arcade.
    • Although influenced by this Mediterranean tradition, the Kells manuscript presents this motif in an Insular spirit, where the arcades are not seen as architectural elements but rather become stylized geometric patterns with Insular ornamentation .
    • The Evangelists are placed in a grid and enclosed in an arcade, as is common in the Mediterranean tradition.
    • However, notice the elaborate geometric and stylized ornamentation in the arcade that highlights the Insular aesthetic.

  • Chicago/Turabian: Headings

    • ., A Study of Color-Blindness in Dogs).
    • If a heading is said to be in sentence case, that means you should format it as though it were a normal sentence, with only the first letter of the first word (and of any proper nouns) capitalized (e.g., A study of color-blindness in dogs).

  • The Salk Vaccine Field Trial

    • The Salk polio vaccine field trial incorporated a double blind placebo control methodolgy to determine the effectiveness of the vaccine.
    • This design also had the characteristic of being double-blind.
    • Double-blind describes an especially stringent way of conducting an experiment on human test subjects which attempts to eliminate subjective, unrecognized biases carried by an experiment's subjects and conductors.
    • In a double-blind experiment, neither the participants nor the researchers know which participants belong to the control group, as opposed to the test group.
    • This combination of randomized control and double-blind experimental factors has become the gold standard for a clinical trial.