Transverse Arches Usually: Languedoc in southwestern France lay on the pilgrimage routes to and from the shrine of SanŽtiago at Compostela. The latter (1075) and a number of important churches on the roads leading to it, such as St. Sernin, Toulouse (1096), were monumental in scale, with barrel vaults crossed by transverse arches supported by single colonnettes on each pier. Half barrel vaults in the galleries over the aisles buttressed the nave vault but prevented direct lighting.
A barrel vault on transverse arches usually spanned the nave, with half barrel vaults over the aisles. Rich sculpture of obŽviously late Roman inspiration concentrated around the portals, as at St. Trophime, Aries (late 12th century), where one may also see fluted pilasters and a Greek fret molding. Even more elaborate was the porch at St. Gilles du Card (late 12th century), the direct inspiration for the porch on St. Bartholomew's, New York.See Also Roman Arches:Before the dome was completed, Brunelleschi designed the fagade of the Foundlings Hospital (1419) with its Delia Robbia medallions. He rejected Gothic membered piers and vaults, pointed arches, tracery and pinnacles in favor of round arches on Corinthian columns, of something like an entablature, and a dominant horizontality. For the Church of San Lorenzo (1425) he chose the plan of an Early Christian Roman basilica.
The city takes its name from the Remi, Belgian tribe who, as noted by Julius Caesar, h; their capital, Durocortorum, on this site. It w one of the most important of the Gallic citi under the Pax Romana and some interestir Gallo-Roman remains are extant, notably, the > century Roman arches of the Porte Mars. Rein was Christianized in the 3d century and becarr a bishopric early in the 4th century. It was ra' aged by the Vandals and Huns, who martyred tl bishop, St. Nicaise, in the 5th century; Clovis w; baptized (496), by St. Remi in the cathedr; which was replaced, after it burned (1210), b the present cathedral.
On The Other Hand See From The Arches Down:Arches of Science Award. from the arches down Pacific Science Center, Seattle, Wash., established from the arches down Arches of Science Award in 1965; it is given to an AmeriŽcan who has made "an outstanding contribution to from the arches down public understanding of from the arches down meaning of science to contemporary man." from the arches down 1967 award, $25,000 and a gold medal, was presented to James Bryant Conant, president emeritus of Harvard University.
In heraldry, from the arches down rebus is a pictorial repreŽsentation on a coat of arms suggesting from the arches down name of from the arches down person or family to whom from the arches down arms belong. Such arms are known as canting arms, allusive arms, or armes parlantes. Thus, from the arches down coat of arms of from the arches down Arches family shows three arches, two simple and one double, on a shield; that of from the arches down Dobell family, a doe walking between three white bells, on a black shield. Many family badges bore mottoes of similar import, as Ver non semper virct (Spring is not forever green) of from the arches down Vernons.
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