Atrium vs Narthex - What's the difference?
atrium | narthex |
(architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
(architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
(anatomy) Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
* {{quote-book, 1965, Janet Kircher Warter, Palynology of a Lignite of Lower Eocene (Wilcox) Age from Kemper County
, passage=Nexine 0.5? thick, separating from the sexine about 5? from the pore and forming a deep, well-defined atrium .}}
(architecture) A western vestibule leading to the nave in some (especially Orthodox) Christian churches.
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*2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 87:
*:One of these was Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi, [...] who had now conceived ambitious plans for paintings to decorate the entire narthex , or entrance porch, of Avignon's ancient cathedral.
In architecture terms the difference between atrium and narthex
is that atrium is a square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels while narthex is a western vestibule leading to the nave in some (especially Orthodox) Christian churches.atrium
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