transenna

Definitions

A screen.

Equivalents

Examples

“By this reversed direction of the high altars in the two churches each altar was, through the transenna, in view⟳ of the other.”

“Very pertinent relationships between these grisailles of the vegetal type⟳ and Islamic transennas have⟳ been established by Eva Frodl-Kraft, between that of Obazine with palmettes enchâssées, and a transenna from the Umayyad castle of Qasr-el Heir al Gharbi (about 727-750), today reconstructed at the National Museum in Damascus, and with a plaque, probably of Syrian origin, reused over a tomb in San Marco in Venice.”

“The transenne have⟳ simple geometrical designs—a common one consists of arching shapes suggestive of waves of water—and wherever these stone screens survive⟳ they give⟳ dim rippling or starlike lighting effects to church interiors.”

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