Delaroche incorporated a widely admired portrait of Antonello da Messina in his 1841 hemicycle at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Minutes before the official announcement in the futuristic hemicycle arena, he gave a thumbs up to his 12-year-old son Peter and daughter Grace as they sat in the gallery.
A cross-axis at the entrance hall opens to the left onto an elaborately shaped dining room - a square with intersecting hemicycles and a half-octagon - and to the right onto a ‘den’ with a half-octagonal porch beyond.
Inside the fabulous wood-panelled hemicycle of the Camera dei Deputati, beneath the stunning Beltranni stained glass windows, 630 Italian parliamentarians are in mid-debate.
This is one of the most successful small classical buildings of its period, with a widely spaced Roman Doric hemicycle, and a copper roof with a bulbous finial for the clock.
Definition of hemicycle in US English:
hemicycle
nounˈhɛməˌsaɪk(ə)lˈheməˌsīk(ə)l
A semicircular shape or structure.
半圆形，半圆形建筑
Example sentencesExamples
Inside the fabulous wood-panelled hemicycle of the Camera dei Deputati, beneath the stunning Beltranni stained glass windows, 630 Italian parliamentarians are in mid-debate.
Minutes before the official announcement in the futuristic hemicycle arena, he gave a thumbs up to his 12-year-old son Peter and daughter Grace as they sat in the gallery.
This is one of the most successful small classical buildings of its period, with a widely spaced Roman Doric hemicycle, and a copper roof with a bulbous finial for the clock.
A cross-axis at the entrance hall opens to the left onto an elaborately shaped dining room - a square with intersecting hemicycles and a half-octagon - and to the right onto a ‘den’ with a half-octagonal porch beyond.
Delaroche incorporated a widely admired portrait of Antonello da Messina in his 1841 hemicycle at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.