An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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Page 44
... practice ; and we cannot refrain from presenting to the reader the curious restrictions imposed upon every class in their several dwellings . Police , indeed , may be said to govern the arts of China . Its laws detail the magnitude and ...
... practice ; and we cannot refrain from presenting to the reader the curious restrictions imposed upon every class in their several dwellings . Police , indeed , may be said to govern the arts of China . Its laws detail the magnitude and ...
Page 78
... practice in these days of comparing Greek and Roman architecture . Each was suitable to the nation that used it ; the forms of Greek columns , their intercoluminations , the inclination of the pediment , were necessarily changed in a ...
... practice in these days of comparing Greek and Roman architecture . Each was suitable to the nation that used it ; the forms of Greek columns , their intercoluminations , the inclination of the pediment , were necessarily changed in a ...
Page 98
... practice . The splendour of the places may be judged of by calling to the remembrance of the reader that the celebrated statue of the Laocoon was one of the decorations of the baths of Titus , and that of the Farnese Hercules of the ...
... practice . The splendour of the places may be judged of by calling to the remembrance of the reader that the celebrated statue of the Laocoon was one of the decorations of the baths of Titus , and that of the Farnese Hercules of the ...
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... practice of vaulting large areas did not appear till a con- siderable time after the building of the first Christian basilicæ , it must be recollected that the Temple of Peace at Rome had previously exhibited a specimen of the profound ...
... practice of vaulting large areas did not appear till a con- siderable time after the building of the first Christian basilicæ , it must be recollected that the Temple of Peace at Rome had previously exhibited a specimen of the profound ...
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... practice , the ancients were acquainted with this mode of building and the occurrence of an arch merely pointed and unaccom- panied with any other characteristic of the style , is no better evidence of the prevalence of Gothic ( pointed ) ...
... practice , the ancients were acquainted with this mode of building and the occurrence of an arch merely pointed and unaccom- panied with any other characteristic of the style , is no better evidence of the prevalence of Gothic ( pointed ) ...
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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