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 pagina's |
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... built , as plainly as if that date was carved upon the surface . The original types of the various styles of archi- tecture may be in a measure traced back to the very earliest times , and were mainly determined by the habits of life of ...
... built , as plainly as if that date was carved upon the surface . The original types of the various styles of archi- tecture may be in a measure traced back to the very earliest times , and were mainly determined by the habits of life of ...
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... built themselves more substantial and permanent dwellings near the scene of their labours by means of logs of timber cut from the forest . In the cave , the tent , and the log - hut , therefore , are seen the original types of ...
... built themselves more substantial and permanent dwellings near the scene of their labours by means of logs of timber cut from the forest . In the cave , the tent , and the log - hut , therefore , are seen the original types of ...
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... built in the form of a cross having four arms of equal length , and surmounted in the centre by a cupola . In Greek architecture the system of the enta- blature is completely developed . The mechanical construction , which is that of ...
... built in the form of a cross having four arms of equal length , and surmounted in the centre by a cupola . In Greek architecture the system of the enta- blature is completely developed . The mechanical construction , which is that of ...
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... Greeks were built of wood has been inferred from passages in the Iliad and Odyssey , so that it was not till long after those poems were written , whenever that might have been , that stone tem- ples 24 Manual of Architecture .
... Greeks were built of wood has been inferred from passages in the Iliad and Odyssey , so that it was not till long after those poems were written , whenever that might have been , that stone tem- ples 24 Manual of Architecture .
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... built in Greece . The exact time of the introduction of the Doric order is therefore unknown , but its early date is proved by the tapering tree - like forms of the columns , with the plain square abacus and ovolo for the capital , and ...
... built in Greece . The exact time of the introduction of the Doric order is therefore unknown , but its early date is proved by the tapering tree - like forms of the columns , with the plain square abacus and ovolo for the capital , and ...
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