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Example sentences for: nave
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The minaret was converted into a bell tower, and a Gothic nave was tacked on to the original structure, followed by a high altar in ornate 16th-century Plateresque style, and some finely carved Baroque choir stalls.
Among the best are the 12th-century Pentecost dome in the nave and the central dome’s 13th-century Ascension.
Inside, left of the Baroque nave, go down to Naples’ earliest known Christian sanctuary, the fourth-century Basilica of Santa Restituta, in which the original Roman columns survived the 1688 earthquake.
Following a common seaport custom, the white clapboard village church, with its nave shaped like an upturned ship, was designed and built by local shipwrights.
From 1506 to 1626, it changed from the simple ground plan of a Greek cross, with four arms of equal length, as favored by Bramante and his arch-enemy Michelangelo, to the final form of Maderno’s Latin cross extended by a long nave, as demanded by the popes of the Counter-Reformation.