Gothic Arch Fetish

[pinokeeo]

That's a long time to be hypnotized.   Still, it looks excellent.

[ChokecherryFarmer]

Really cool!  Have you thought about experimenting with any other architectural features?

[BuffyHanson]

those are amazing... you are seriously talented

[Lmcbride]

I do have a couple other architectural features that I am completely enamoured with and will probably incorporate into a series.  For instance onion domes.  They make me all giddy.

[nataluna]

i could also see you doing great justice to the type of arch seen in islamic architecture, too.  but i can't remember what it's called.  like in the alhambra or commonly seen in morroccan designs.  it actually looks kinda the same shape as an onion dome, but the negative space is backwards.

[Lmcbride]

I know what you're talking about but I don't know what it's called.  I need an architectural pictorial dictionary, I wonder if such a thing exists.... And yes, it also makes my socks go up and down.  As does another of my favorites, the Crenellated Arch.  We put some of those in our house just for kicks, and made some big onion dome finials for our four-poster bed.  It makes me happy.

[Phizzychick]

I went to the Alhambra again last year. Like this kind of thing?



No idea what it's called either though!

[katrin]

These rounded arches are called horseshoe, when they look like onion domes they are called ogee. At least that is what my architectural dictionary says. I use the book "Baustilkunde" by Wilfired Koch, which is the German standard book on architectural styles, (I studied art history in Germany) unfortunately amazon.com only has a German version which is quite expensive. But the book has great illustrations and translations to English, Italian, French and Spanish.

Hope, this helps. 

[nataluna]

ooh yeah those

[Lmcbride]

ooooohhhhh my God, just looking at that picture is like a spiritual experience for me.  I think if I ever got to go there for real I would cry.  I would just cry.  Thanks for posting that Phizzychick.   And thanks for that book reference, katrin.  My simple dictionary calls what I have always thought of as gothic arch, "Lancet arch".  And I learned "crenellated" from a book on Indian interiors.  That's the extent of my scholarship so far, sigh.