bay

Examples of bay in the following topics:

• Romanesque Architecture: The Church of Saint-Lazare

  • The plan of the cathedral has a narthex, or antechamber, of two bays topped by two towers, followed by a seven-bay nave flanked by side aisles and a transept with the tower surmounting cross.
  • Each nave bay is separated at the vault by a transverse rib.
  • Each transept projects to the width of two nave bays and the west entrance has a narthex which screens the main portal.

• The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

  • During the Roman Republic and into the early Empire, the area today known as the Bay of Naples was developed as a resort-type area for elite Romans escaping the pressure and politics of Rome.

• Chicago School of Architecture

  • The arrangement of windows on the facade typically creates a grid pattern, with some projecting out from the facade forming bay windows.
  • These windows were often deployed in bays, known as oriel windows, that projected out over the street.

• Compositional Balance

  • Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge reflects asymmetrical architectural design.

• Norman Stained Glass

  • Perhaps the most famous 12th-century window at Chartres is the so-called Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière, found in the first bay of the choir after the south transept.
  • Each bay of the aisles and the choir ambulatory contains one large lancet window, most of them roughly 8.1 meters high by 2.2 meters wide.
  • Whereas the lower windows in the nave arcades and the ambulatory consist of one simple lancet per bay, the clerestory windows are each made up of a pair of lancets with a plate-traceried rose window above.
  • Those in the choir depict the kings of France and Castille and members of the local nobility in the straight bays, while the windows in the apse hemicycle show those Old Testament prophets who foresaw the virgin birth, flanking scenes of the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity in the axial window.

• Wood Carving in the Caroline Islands

  • Dilukai are wooden figures of young women carved over the doorways of chiefs' houses (known as bai) in the Palauan archipelago.
  • Dilukai are wooden figures of young women carved over the doorways of chiefs' houses (bai) to protect the villagers' health and crops and ward off evil spirits.

• Inuit Art

  • A Thule site in Resolute Bay, Nunavut contains an example of a home whose frame used whale bones.

• The Bhakti Movement

  • Ramananda, Ravidas, Srimanta Sankardeva, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Vallabhacharya, Surdas, Meera Bai, Kabir, Tulsidas, Namdev, Dnyaneshwar, Tukaram and other mystics spearheaded the Bhakti movement in the north while Annamacharya, Bhadrachala Ramadas, and Tyagaraja among others propagated Bhakti in the south.

• Prague

  • Narrow windows in the six bays also number twelve for the tribes.

• Architecture during the Tang Dynasty

  • The humble building is a three bay square hall that is 10 meters deep and 11.75 meters across the front.
  • The hall contains several features of Tang Dynasty halls, including its longer central front bay and the use of camel-hump braces.