Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... whole of its corridors , chambers and pavilions are of white mar- ble , wrought with the most exquisite elaboration of ornament . The pavilions overhanging the river are inlaid , within and without , in the rich style of Florentine ...
... whole of its corridors , chambers and pavilions are of white mar- ble , wrought with the most exquisite elaboration of ornament . The pavilions overhanging the river are inlaid , within and without , in the rich style of Florentine ...
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... whole of the palace , as well as to that of Beer - Bul . It is a wilderness of sculpture , where invention seems to have been taxed to the utmost to produce new combinations of ornament . Every thing is carved in a sandstone so fine and ...
... whole of the palace , as well as to that of Beer - Bul . It is a wilderness of sculpture , where invention seems to have been taxed to the utmost to produce new combinations of ornament . Every thing is carved in a sandstone so fine and ...
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... different countries of the Mohammedan world , the differences were to a considerable extent softened down , the foreign elements disappeared , and the whole became fused into a style 52 BAYARD TAYLOR'S INDIA , CHINA AND JAPAN .
... different countries of the Mohammedan world , the differences were to a considerable extent softened down , the foreign elements disappeared , and the whole became fused into a style 52 BAYARD TAYLOR'S INDIA , CHINA AND JAPAN .
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disappeared , and the whole became fused into a style bearing the distinctive peculiarities of the Saracenic alone . From the first there were adopted in the Saracenic style two or three elements , of which it has made special use ...
disappeared , and the whole became fused into a style bearing the distinctive peculiarities of the Saracenic alone . From the first there were adopted in the Saracenic style two or three elements , of which it has made special use ...
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... whole building is profusely covered , within and without , with Florentine mosaics , of wreaths and flowers , formed of bloodstones , jaspers and cornelians , inlaid into the marble . This style , in which the chief buildings were ...
... whole building is profusely covered , within and without , with Florentine mosaics , of wreaths and flowers , formed of bloodstones , jaspers and cornelians , inlaid into the marble . This style , in which the chief buildings were ...
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