hemicycle

In the hemicycle the committee benches had disappeared; they had run parallel to the sections on the arc of a circle.

The hemicycle became the apse; the gallery, a clerestory; the hall, a central nave.

Above the terrace of the recesses, rose that of the Hemicycle.

In the hemicycle above are the Virgin and Child under a Byzantine canopy with angels and founders on either side.

His greatest work, however, and one which won him much fame, is his well-known Hemicycle in the Beaux Arts (p. 319).