Magazine as a visually impressive " ballet of the legions ", with the powerful Roman army advancing over the hill in its characteristic " quincunx " formation.
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The barrel-vaulted nave and cross arms have a dome at their crossing, and the corner bays of the galleries are also domed to form a quincunx pattern.
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That southern Italy was reconquered and conquered by Muslims in 827, but quincunx churches exist with single domes on tall central drums and either Byzantine pendentives or Islamic squinches.
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Within this triplex acies system, contemporary Roman writers talk of the maniples adopting a checkered formation called " quincunx " when deployed for battle but not yet engaged.
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The cross-in-square plan, with a single dome at the crossing or five domes in a quincunx pattern, became widely popular in the Middle Byzantine period.
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From the fixation of the number of bezants in five, each of the escutcheons of the Portuguese shield became popularly referred as a " quina " ( quincunx ).
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Proposed inspirations for Bramante's plan have ranged from some sketches of Leonardo da Vinci to the Byzantine quincunx church and the dome of Milan's Basilica of San Lorenzo.
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Throughout its pages the author attempts to demonstrate that the number five and the related Quincunx pattern can be found throughout the arts, in design, and in nature particularly botany.
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As an expansion of quincunx, which then symbolizes space, we find two axes that combine the universe with the inclusion of both the natural and the spiritual, vertically and horizontally.
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In 1990, he gave up his university post to become a full-time writer when his first novel, " The Quincunx ", became an international best-seller.
