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a largo dado

English translation: large impost block or dosseret

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Italian term or phrase:a largo dado
English translation:large impost block or dosseret
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher

15:04 Jun 25, 2015
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Architecture / exterior of a basilica
Italian term or phrase: a largo dado
This is from a description of the exterior of a Basilica di Santa Maria di Salute in Venice. This term does not appear anywhere else in the text.

La cupola maggiore parte da una base ottagonale a largo dado, su cui posa il tamburo circolare che sostiene la calotta sferica.


I do realize that dado is also an architectural term in English but I am having trouble incorporating into the sentence.
Thank you!
Maria Fokin
Italy
Local time: 07:02
large impost block or dosseret
Explanation:
or cushion capital from whence arches spring

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-dosseret.html
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Dosseret
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_architecture

somtimes known as pulvinated or bulging capital but I think "pulvin" is not so widely used in English.

http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198605...


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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 06:02
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4large impost block or dosseret
Yvonne Gallagher
2large pulvin
Rossinka


  

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large pulvin


Explanation:
Spero che aiuti almeno come suggerimento per ulteriori ricerche.

Quello che viene definito “dado brunelleschiano” non è altro che un pulvino a forma di dado....
https://arte4erb.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/pulvino/
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulvino

Rossinka
Italy
Local time: 07:02
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
large impost block or dosseret


Explanation:
or cushion capital from whence arches spring

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-dosseret.html
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Dosseret
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_architecture

somtimes known as pulvinated or bulging capital but I think "pulvin" is not so widely used in English.

http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198605...


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Note added at 105 days (2015-10-08 16:21:03 GMT) Post-grading
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glad to have helped

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 06:02
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