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Tympanum
Also called tympana
The field between the lintel of a doorway and the arch above it, the place of the great sculpted scenes of Romanesque and Gothic portals.
Rules that use the word
The height of the pediment. Divide the whole front of the cornice into nine parts; give one of them to the height of the tympanum, measured at its centre.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The Temple, Romanesque and Gothic.
Nearby in the glossary
Triumphal arch · Trompe-l’oeil · Truss · Tuscan · Universal space · Urushringa · Usonian house · Vastu