Example sentences for: transept

How can you use “transept” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the Upper Basilica, reopened in 2000 after intense round-the-clock restoration, Cimabue’s works in the apse and left transept have turned black, looking like photo negatives because of the oxidized white lead in his paints, yet you can still feel the intensity of the crowd’s anguish in his Crucifixion, blessedly untouched by the earthquake’s damaging force.

  • Of another age, at once austere and serene, is the Giotto Crucifixion (1290) in the Sacristy (left transept).

  • In the left transept is a magnificent octagonal 13th-century pulpit carved by Nicola Pisano, with help from son Giovanni and Arnolfo di Cambio.

  • The elevator entrance (clearly signposted outside the cathedral) is in the right transept.

  • In the right transept, the Cimabue’s famous portrait of St. Francis, believed to be a close physical resemblance, shows him to the right of the enthroned Madonna.


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