An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... Roman Egyptian temple . Koos ( No. 21. ) ( Apollinopolis parva ) , no ruins . At Thebes or Kench ( Diospolis magna ) , on the east bank , are Carnak and Luxor ( No. 22. ) ( figs . 62. and 63. ) ; on the west , tombs of the kings ...
... Roman Egyptian temple . Koos ( No. 21. ) ( Apollinopolis parva ) , no ruins . At Thebes or Kench ( Diospolis magna ) , on the east bank , are Carnak and Luxor ( No. 22. ) ( figs . 62. and 63. ) ; on the west , tombs of the kings ...
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... Roman architecture of the period had fallen . For the sake of illustrating what we mean , we refer , as examples , to the Baths of Dioclesian , to that emperor's palace at Salona , and to the buildings of Justinian and Theodosius ...
... Roman architecture of the period had fallen . For the sake of illustrating what we mean , we refer , as examples , to the Baths of Dioclesian , to that emperor's palace at Salona , and to the buildings of Justinian and Theodosius ...
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... Roman citizens were not very much enlightened on the arts , or that he was a singular block head . We have now arrived at the period at which Greece was despoiled and Rome enriched , and must pursue the history of the art among the Romans ...
... Roman citizens were not very much enlightened on the arts , or that he was a singular block head . We have now arrived at the period at which Greece was despoiled and Rome enriched , and must pursue the history of the art among the Romans ...
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... Roman ; merely adding here , that in about a year after the death of Alexander the nation fell under the dominion of the Romans . SECT . XIII . ROMAN ARCHITECTURE . 182. The Romans can scarcely be said to have had an original ...
... Roman ; merely adding here , that in about a year after the death of Alexander the nation fell under the dominion of the Romans . SECT . XIII . ROMAN ARCHITECTURE . 182. The Romans can scarcely be said to have had an original ...
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... Romans to avert the evils that threatened them by sacrificing a sow with pig . She was hence called Moneta ( from ... Roman province . Art , in the strict application of that word , was not properly understood by the victorious Romans ...
... Romans to avert the evils that threatened them by sacrificing a sow with pig . She was hence called Moneta ( from ... Roman province . Art , in the strict application of that word , was not properly understood by the victorious Romans ...
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