An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... effect , we are not to assume that a want of taste must be consequent on the first sort merely because it cannot be called constructive architecture . And here we must observe , that we think the writer in the EncyclopƩdie MƩthodique ...
... effect , we are not to assume that a want of taste must be consequent on the first sort merely because it cannot be called constructive architecture . And here we must observe , that we think the writer in the EncyclopƩdie MƩthodique ...
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... effect is quite theatrical , and its perfect symmetry gives it the appearance of a work of great art , and of greater skill in composition than most other Indian works . Yet an examination of the details , and particularly of the system ...
... effect is quite theatrical , and its perfect symmetry gives it the appearance of a work of great art , and of greater skill in composition than most other Indian works . Yet an examination of the details , and particularly of the system ...
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... effect , and beauty , for which the arts generally are indebted to nature . We think it was Madame de Staƫl who said that architecture was frozen music . Now , though in architecture , as in the other arts , there is no sensible imi ...
... effect , and beauty , for which the arts generally are indebted to nature . We think it was Madame de Staƫl who said that architecture was frozen music . Now , though in architecture , as in the other arts , there is no sensible imi ...
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... effect of time upon the edifices of the country , they still seem calculated for a duration equally long as that of the globe itself . The materials employed upon them were well adapted to insure a defiance of all that age could effect ...
... effect of time upon the edifices of the country , they still seem calculated for a duration equally long as that of the globe itself . The materials employed upon them were well adapted to insure a defiance of all that age could effect ...
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... effect . The figures that are sculptured on the walls of the temples are mostly in low relief , and are destitute of propor- tion ; and , when in groups , are devoid of senti- ment . Painting was another mode of decoration . The ...
... effect . The figures that are sculptured on the walls of the temples are mostly in low relief , and are destitute of propor- tion ; and , when in groups , are devoid of senti- ment . Painting was another mode of decoration . The ...
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