An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... beautiful can be conceived . No cement appears to have been used , but the stones seem to have been connected by cramps , whose removal , however , has neither deranged the courses from which they have been removed , nor affected their ...
... beautiful can be conceived . No cement appears to have been used , but the stones seem to have been connected by cramps , whose removal , however , has neither deranged the courses from which they have been removed , nor affected their ...
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... beautiful portico , and the remaining two by small square cells for students , twelve in each front , disposed in two stories . In the city are few hospitals ; one stands , however , beside the caravanserai of Shah Abbas , who erected ...
... beautiful portico , and the remaining two by small square cells for students , twelve in each front , disposed in two stories . In the city are few hospitals ; one stands , however , beside the caravanserai of Shah Abbas , who erected ...
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... beautiful as well as the best preserved remains of antiquity . A Corinthian colony established itself at Syracuse , as is said , 750 BC .; but no details of the history of the city furnish us with the means of ascertaining when the ...
... beautiful as well as the best preserved remains of antiquity . A Corinthian colony established itself at Syracuse , as is said , 750 BC .; but no details of the history of the city furnish us with the means of ascertaining when the ...
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... beautiful edifice in the Peloponnesus . The cell , which was hypƦthral , was surrounded by two ranks of Doric columns , which were surmounted by others of the Corinthian order . The peristyle of this temple was Ionic . 163. The delicacy ...
... beautiful edifice in the Peloponnesus . The cell , which was hypƦthral , was surrounded by two ranks of Doric columns , which were surmounted by others of the Corinthian order . The peristyle of this temple was Ionic . 163. The delicacy ...
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... beautiful temple of the Corinthian order that perhaps ever existed in the world was the ( formerly so called ) Temple of Jupiter Stator , in the Campo Vaccino or more properly the Forum at Rome , and now designated the Temple of the ...
... beautiful temple of the Corinthian order that perhaps ever existed in the world was the ( formerly so called ) Temple of Jupiter Stator , in the Campo Vaccino or more properly the Forum at Rome , and now designated the Temple of the ...
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15th century aisles arch architect architecture axis base beam breadth bricks building built called cast iron Castle cathedral cement centre of gravity chapel choir church circle circumference colour columns construction Corinthian order cube cubic foot curve decorated describe diameter dome Doric order draw edifices ellipsis employed entablature equal erected examples extrados feet flange front girder Gothic granite half height horizontal inches joints length lime limestone marble material mortar mouldings nave obtained oolite ornaments palace parallel parallelogram perpendicular piers placed plane plates portico Portland stone Prop proportion pyramid quarries radius rectangle ribs right angles right line Roman Roman architecture Rome roof sand sandstone side similar sofite solid square stone strength style surface tangent temple thickness tiles timber tons tower transepts triangle upper vault vertical Vitruvius voussoirs walls whereof width wood