A Rudimentary Manual of Architecture: Being a History and Explanation of the Principal Styles of European Architecture, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Renaissance, with Their Chief Variations Described and Illustrated; to which is Appended a Glossary of Technical TermsLongmans, Green, 1870 - 304 páginas |
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... Greek architecture . The heavy massiveness and tomb- like forms of Assyria and Egypt , as also the remains of large temples of unknown date in Cen- tral India , which are excavated out of the solid rock , bespeak their descent from the ...
... Greek architecture . The heavy massiveness and tomb- like forms of Assyria and Egypt , as also the remains of large temples of unknown date in Cen- tral India , which are excavated out of the solid rock , bespeak their descent from the ...
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... form of mechanical construc- tion and most completely developed in the Greek , belong all the most ancient styles of ... forms being selected , and the interstices were filled up with smaller pieces ; afterwards , as progress was made in ...
... form of mechanical construc- tion and most completely developed in the Greek , belong all the most ancient styles of ... forms being selected , and the interstices were filled up with smaller pieces ; afterwards , as progress was made in ...
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... Greek architecture is that of the COLUMN and ENTABLATURE , or , reducing the terms to their simplest forms , the post and lintel or beam . Many attempts have been made to prove that Greek architecture was derived from Egyptian , but a ...
... Greek architecture is that of the COLUMN and ENTABLATURE , or , reducing the terms to their simplest forms , the post and lintel or beam . Many attempts have been made to prove that Greek architecture was derived from Egyptian , but a ...
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... Greek , with purer taste , sought through- out the whole kingdom of nature for her highest forms of grace and loveliness , and fixed his idea of godlike dignity in the perfection of human beauty . In reality the Greeks learnt nothing ...
... Greek , with purer taste , sought through- out the whole kingdom of nature for her highest forms of grace and loveliness , and fixed his idea of godlike dignity in the perfection of human beauty . In reality the Greeks learnt nothing ...
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... Greek architecture produced a form of perfect beauty in its porticoed temple , but only one form , the similarity of type being discernible in every structure , and the constructive features being always the same . It is only in the ...
... Greek architecture produced a form of perfect beauty in its porticoed temple , but only one form , the similarity of type being discernible in every structure , and the constructive features being always the same . It is only in the ...
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