shaft

Examples of shaft in the following topics:

• Mycenaean Metallurgy

  • Inside are six tombs for nineteen bodies that were buried inside shaft graves.
  • The shaft graves were deep, narrow shafts dug into the ground.
  • Grave Circle A, Grave Shaft IV, Mycenae, Greece.
  • Grave Circle A, Grave shaft V, Mycenae, Greece.
  • Grave Circle A, Grave Shaft IV, Mycenae, Greece.

• Characteristics of Romanesque Architecture

  • Although basically rectangular, piers can often be of highly complex form, with half-segments of large hollow-core columns on the inner surface supporting the arch, or a clustered group of smaller shafts leading into the moldings of the arch.
  • Durham Cathedral has decorated masonry columns alternating with piers of clustered shafts supporting the earliest pointed high ribs.
  • The Collegiate Church of Nivelles, Belgium uses fine shafts of Belgian marble to define alternating blind openings and windows.

• Chicago School of Architecture

  • The first floor functions as the base, the middle stories, usually with little ornamental detail, act as the shaft of the column, and the last floor or so represent the capital, with more ornamental detail and capped with a cornice.

• Chiaroscuro

  • Dark subjects dramatically lit by a shaft of light from a single constricted and often unseen source was a compositional device developed by the artists Ugo Da Carpi (c. 1455- c. 1523), Giovanni Baglione (1566–1643) and Caravaggio (1573–1610).

• Architecture under the Sultanate of Delhi

  • It comprises several superposed flanged and cylindrical shafts, separated by balconies supported by Muqarnas corbels (an architectural ornamentation reminiscent of stalactites employed in traditional Islamic and Persian architecture).

• Temple Architecture in the Greek Archaic Period

  • Their shafts were fluted with twenty parallel grooves that tapered to a sharp point.
  • Doric columns are also noted for the presence of entasis, or bulges in the middle of the column shaft.

• Architecture

  • Other characteristic features include columns composed of multiple shafts and high-relief sculpture, usually of a more naturalistic character than found in Romanesque decoration.

• Temple Architecture in the Greek Orientalizing Period

  • Unlike Minoan columns, the shafts of the columns of Temple A did not taper; rather, their width remained constant for the entire length.

• Etruscan Temples

  • The columns were of the Tuscan order, a derivative of the Doric order consisting of a simple shaft on a base with a simple capital.

• Ceramics in Early South America

  • The Paracas Cavernas are shaft tombs set into the top of Cerro Colorado, each containing multiple burials.