Monoforium

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Monoforiums in the bell tower of Arezzo Cathedral,
left in the picture a biforium
Rectangular and arched monoforias in the Porta Palatina in Turin

A monoforium (plural: monoforiums) is a single opening (Latin foramen , it. Foro = opening ), a hatch in a wall, a special narrow and high type of window.

It is a terminus technicus that denotes a special type of window in architecture, a "simple" opening in the wall in contrast to the biforias and triforias divided by pillars or columns , especially in the epochs from Romanesque , Gothic and Renaissance to Eclecticism .

Examples of buildings with monoforias

  • Arezzo Cathedral
  • Ekkehart Rotter: Apulia . Trips to Byzantine grotto churches, Norman cathedrals, Hohenstaufen forts and baroque buildings in Lecce. (=  DuMont art travel guide ). 6th edition. Dumont Reise Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 3-7701-4314-0 . , Page 139: "... 43 m high campanile with its typical, floor-to-ceiling arrangement of windows from the monoforium via the biforium to the triforium."
  • Basilica of San Nicola in Bari
  • Church of San Giovanni Battista in Matera
  • Acerenza Cathedral
  • Porta Palatina , Roman city gate in Turin , both with right-angled, straight monoforias (on the top floor of the central building) and with arched ones

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Latin Dictionary: foramen
  2. ↑ Pons dictionary: 2nd opening (hole)
  3. ↑ Ekkehart Rotter: Calabria & Basilicata :, Dumont Art Travel Guide, page 110: "... under the large ogival monoforium ..."
  4. ^ Ekkehart Rotter: Apulia . Trips to Byzantine grotto churches, Norman cathedrals, Hohenstaufen forts and baroque buildings in Lecce. (=  DuMont art travel guide ). 6th edition. Dumont Reise Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 3-7701-4314-0 . Page 205: "The right (tower) has only a narrow, loopholes-like monoforium above the base zone and a gate-sized one at the top."
  5. ↑ Matera website: San Giovanni Battista "una monofora verticale"
  6. ↑ Archdiocese of Acerenza: Guided tour of the cathedral, ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Page 2, 3rd paragraph: "belle monofore", 4th paragraph: "prima monofora" @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diocesiacerenza.it
  7. ^ Cultura Italia: View of the Porta Palatina in Turin , section "Sogetto", 8th line: "Monofora"

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