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Bifora

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BIFORA. - This is the name given to any window with two adjacent openings, generally divided by a small column, and enclosed in a single architectural frame, whether arched or not. It already appears as a decorative element in the facades of 12th-century Lombard churches (Pavia, S. Michele) and in others of Umbria and Apulia from the same period. It enjoyed wider fortune in the Gothic age and the early Renaissance, assuming very diverse formal varieties according to place, down to the characteristic examples of the Certosa di Pavia, where the dividing small column is replaced by a candelabrum.

Guglielmo Matthiae

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 1630.

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Matthiae, Guglielmo. “Bifora.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1630. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bifora.

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Matthiae, Guglielmo. “Bifora.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1630. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bifora.

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@incollection{ec2_bifora,
  author    = {Matthiae, Guglielmo},
  title     = {Bifora},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {1630},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bifora}
}

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