Lunette

As a bezel or bezel is referred to in the visual arts and architecture, semi-circular or circular segment framed wall panels (also called arc fields) that are located above doors and windows. They are frequently provided with scenic or plastic jewelry. Also arcuate picture panels in a triptych and semi-circular frames on the ancient steles are called bezel.

The name comes from the French la lunette, diminutive to the moon ( crescent-shaped ).

Similar fields in gables with a triangular shape is called a tympanum. Occasionally, the term is also used tympanum analogous to bezel.

Examples

• Giuseppe Modena da Lucca right above the portals of the Cathedral of Pisa, Italy, see figure central portal, left portal imaging, imaging Portal
• Pietro Perugino's altarpiece ( polyptych ) in the Collezione Torlonia in Rome, see Figure
• Giovanni Bellini's triptych of St Sebastian Tryptych see Figure
• With frescoes by Michelangelo decorated lunettes above the windows in the Sistine Chapel in Rome
• Jali Sidi Sayed Mosque in Ahmedabad in the Indian

Further use

The small crescent- like figures of the comb marble paper are called lunettes.