An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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Page 37
... placed on the top of the shaft of the column , to which it is not joined by the intervention of any moulding . This abacus is , however , sometimes high enough to admit of a head being sculptured thereon , as in the annexed block . It ...
... placed on the top of the shaft of the column , to which it is not joined by the intervention of any moulding . This abacus is , however , sometimes high enough to admit of a head being sculptured thereon , as in the annexed block . It ...
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... placed those which actually form the ceilings , just like the floor boards of a modern economical English building . On them are often found some of the most interesting representations that are in existence : we allude to those of the ...
... placed those which actually form the ceilings , just like the floor boards of a modern economical English building . On them are often found some of the most interesting representations that are in existence : we allude to those of the ...
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... placed on plinths facing one another , and about ten feet apart . Examples of lions also occur . The form of the Egyptian obelisks is too well known to need a description here . They have been alleged to be monuments consecrated to the ...
... placed on plinths facing one another , and about ten feet apart . Examples of lions also occur . The form of the Egyptian obelisks is too well known to need a description here . They have been alleged to be monuments consecrated to the ...
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... placed symmetrically in a very romantic situation . That in the best preservation , and , at the same time , the principal one , is nearly 130 ft . long . A staircase , formed in a pit , leads to a subterranean apartment , 88 ft . in ...
... placed symmetrically in a very romantic situation . That in the best preservation , and , at the same time , the principal one , is nearly 130 ft . long . A staircase , formed in a pit , leads to a subterranean apartment , 88 ft . in ...
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... placed a tile on the basket , for the longer preservation of its contents . The basket was accidentally placed on the root of an acanthus plant , which , pressed by the weight , shot forth , towards spring , its stems and large foliage ...
... placed a tile on the basket , for the longer preservation of its contents . The basket was accidentally placed on the root of an acanthus plant , which , pressed by the weight , shot forth , towards spring , its stems and large foliage ...
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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