| 单词 | vesica piscis |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvesica piscis (also piscium) a. vesica piscis (also piscium), a pointed oval figure, the sides of which are properly parts of two equal circles passing through each other at their centres, frequently employed as an architectural feature and by early artists as an aureole enclosing figures of Christ, the Virgin, etc.The reason for the name (fish's or fishes' bladder) is disputed: see quot. 1813. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments pommela1300 crest1430 finial1448 balloon1592 brattishingc1593 knob1610 cartouche1611 ogive1611 fret1626 galace1663 acroterion1664 paternoster1728 semi-urn1742 patera1776 purfling1780 sailing course1807 vesica piscis (also piscium)1809 antefix1819 vesica1820 garland1823 stop1825 Aaron's rod1830 headwork1831 Vitruvian scroll1837 hip knob1838 stelea1840 ball-flower1840 notch-head1843 brandishing1846 buckle1848 cat's-head1848 bucrane1854 cresting1869 semi-ball1875 canephorus1880 crest-board1881 wave pattern1905 husk1934 foliate head1939 green man1939 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > religious painting > picture by subject > pointed oval aureole vesica piscis (also piscium)1809 vesica1820 aureole1851 1809 T. Kerrich in Archaeol. (1812) XVI. 313 [A figure] formed by two equal circles, cutting each other in their centers... We are told that it was called Vesica Piscis. 1813 J. S. Hawkins Gothic Archit. 244 Vesica piscium cannot, therefore, signify a fish's bladder, but a bladder, which when filled with wind, would be in the form of a fish. 1820 T. Kerrich in Archaeol. XIX. 353 Observations on the Use of the mysterious Figure, called Vesica Piscis, in the Architecture of the Middle Ages, and in Gothic Architecture. 1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 399 Vesica piscis: a name applied by Albert Durer to a pointed oval figure [etc.]. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. v. 189 Their heads [sc. of the two portals of Ely] were formerly filled with the Vesica Piscis. < as lemmas |
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