An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... extremely irregular ; its greatest length is nearly 12 ft . , and its breadth about 9 ft .; its thickness is 2 ft . , and its weight about 10 tons : the width of the recess at bottom is 9 ft . , and at top 7 ft .; from the ground to the ...
... extremely irregular ; its greatest length is nearly 12 ft . , and its breadth about 9 ft .; its thickness is 2 ft . , and its weight about 10 tons : the width of the recess at bottom is 9 ft . , and at top 7 ft .; from the ground to the ...
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... extremely probable from the wealth of a people whose merchants were princes , and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth . Besides the verses of Euripides , which point- to the style of Phoenician architecture , we have the ...
... extremely probable from the wealth of a people whose merchants were princes , and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth . Besides the verses of Euripides , which point- to the style of Phoenician architecture , we have the ...
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... extremely simple . Pyramidal , and of large dimensions , they had no light but that which the door afforded ; and , indeed , the gloom of the cavern seems to have led them to consider the solemn dark- ness of such a mansion sacred ...
... extremely simple . Pyramidal , and of large dimensions , they had no light but that which the door afforded ; and , indeed , the gloom of the cavern seems to have led them to consider the solemn dark- ness of such a mansion sacred ...
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... extremely skilful in working stone , an art which at a later time they carried to a perfection which has never been surpassed . As the Tyrians , Sidonians , and other inhabitants of Palestine were , owing to the material which their ...
... extremely skilful in working stone , an art which at a later time they carried to a perfection which has never been surpassed . As the Tyrians , Sidonians , and other inhabitants of Palestine were , owing to the material which their ...
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... extremely simple in its form . Among the representations n Denon's work is one in which the base is in the shape of an inverted ogee . It belongs o a column of one of the buildings at Tentyra . The base of 79. In their capitals , the ...
... extremely simple in its form . Among the representations n Denon's work is one in which the base is in the shape of an inverted ogee . It belongs o a column of one of the buildings at Tentyra . The base of 79. In their capitals , 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 depth describe diameter dome Doric order draw edifices ellipsis employed entablature equal erected examples extrados feet girder given Gothic granite half horizontal inches intercolumniations joints length lime limestone marble mortar mouldings nave oolite ornaments palace parallel parallelogram perpendicular piece piers placed plane plates portico Portland stone Prop proportion pyramid quarries radius rectangle ribs right angles right line Roman Roman architecture Rome roof 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 weight whereof width wood