lunette

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The gallery is turning its Sir John Soane-designed rooms into what will resemble a Sevillian church so that three large lunettes can be seen at height, as was Murillo's intention.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012

But the lunettes, or flat semicircular panels, around the top of the Sistine's windows, show no sign of these preliminaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was stupid to spring the cleaned lunettes on the public in 1984 under the killing glare of television wattage; that kind of lighting would make even Michelangelo's sculpture look flat, let alone his frescoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is true that Michelangelo's lunettes had suffered from water seepage and required some restoration, but the vast barrel vault itself was relatively pristine; it did not need cleaning.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bas-relief is one of two lunettes placed over opposite doors in the cathedral of Florence.

From Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)