An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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Page 43
... roofs . On them we find resting nothing analogous to the architecture for receiving and supporting the upper timbers of the carpentry ; on the contrary , the roof projects over and beyond the posts or columns , whose upper extremities ...
... roofs . On them we find resting nothing analogous to the architecture for receiving and supporting the upper timbers of the carpentry ; on the contrary , the roof projects over and beyond the posts or columns , whose upper extremities ...
Page 45
... roof stands on wooden columns ; and its extremities , projecting beyond the walls , are usually decorated with the ... roof turned up at the angles . One of these buildings , serving as a hall of audience , stands like the rest on a ...
... roof stands on wooden columns ; and its extremities , projecting beyond the walls , are usually decorated with the ... roof turned up at the angles . One of these buildings , serving as a hall of audience , stands like the rest on a ...
Page 46
... roof resembles that of the peristyle , and has its angles similarly ornamented . The buildings are all covered with green varnished tiles . 105. The Chinese towers , which also Europeans call country . The most celebrated , whereof a ...
... roof resembles that of the peristyle , and has its angles similarly ornamented . The buildings are all covered with green varnished tiles . 105. The Chinese towers , which also Europeans call country . The most celebrated , whereof a ...
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... roof projected over the faces of the walls of the building , so as to deliver the rain clear of them . Their ends were the origin of the mutule or modillion , whereof the former had its under side inclined , as , among many other ...
... roof projected over the faces of the walls of the building , so as to deliver the rain clear of them . Their ends were the origin of the mutule or modillion , whereof the former had its under side inclined , as , among many other ...
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... roof of the four sides of the atrium was covered with ornamental tiles , the eaves ' faces whereof were terminated between their sloping junc- tions with carved faces called antefixe , similar to those in the roofs of the Grecian tem ...
... roof of the four sides of the atrium was covered with ornamental tiles , the eaves ' faces whereof were terminated between their sloping junc- tions with carved faces called antefixe , similar to those in the roofs of the Grecian tem ...
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