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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... entirely neglected by all historians , because the historians themselves have been entirely ignorant of the subject . Why are they ignorant of it ? Because the subject has never formed part of the English school education as it ought to ...
... entirely neglected by all historians , because the historians themselves have been entirely ignorant of the subject . Why are they ignorant of it ? Because the subject has never formed part of the English school education as it ought to ...
Pagina 16
... entirely human in cha- racter , inhabiting the sunny mountain top , the grassy dell with its rippling stream and reedy banks , or the deep wood where the wood - nymphs sported by the silvery fountain . They needed no spire to point out ...
... entirely human in cha- racter , inhabiting the sunny mountain top , the grassy dell with its rippling stream and reedy banks , or the deep wood where the wood - nymphs sported by the silvery fountain . They needed no spire to point out ...
Pagina 18
... entirely different from those of the columns . Colonnades , or ranges of columns , were gene- rally used both in front of and surrounding a temple . In describing a temple a name is usually prefixed , signifying the number of columns em ...
... entirely different from those of the columns . Colonnades , or ranges of columns , were gene- rally used both in front of and surrounding a temple . In describing a temple a name is usually prefixed , signifying the number of columns em ...
Pagina 36
... entirely credited till the present re- mains of portions of its detail were discovered . Admiral Smyth in his description says , ' enormous blocks of stone testify the grandeur of this temple . Besides the masses of shafts and capitals ...
... entirely credited till the present re- mains of portions of its detail were discovered . Admiral Smyth in his description says , ' enormous blocks of stone testify the grandeur of this temple . Besides the masses of shafts and capitals ...
Pagina 65
... entirely . The Doric and Ionic forms wanted no improvement , and those orders admitted of no further develop- ment . They had already reached completion in the hands of the Greeks before being adopted by the Romans . In the Temple of ...
... entirely . The Doric and Ionic forms wanted no improvement , and those orders admitted of no further develop- ment . They had already reached completion in the hands of the Greeks before being adopted by the Romans . In the Temple of ...
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