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apse Noun an arched or domed recess at the east end of a church [Greek apsis a fitting together]
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Doric and Corinthian capitals, coffered ceilings, apses, and colonnades created a visual link with the great civilizations of the ancient world. The original back of the chapel would have terminated with the painting, but this was extended into semi-circular apses behind them. Even though the oblong shape of the church as a whole, the towers at its front, and the apses flanking the altar all bring to mind traditional models of church architecture, their extreme geometrical abstraction, their minimalism and the absence of any scale-giving detail unhinge their familiar effect. |
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