An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... architecture closer than in Egypt , and as the conceptions and execution in architecture are dependent on the other arts , we will here briefly examine the influence which the religion of the country had upon them . 68. Painting and ...
... architecture closer than in Egypt , and as the conceptions and execution in architecture are dependent on the other arts , we will here briefly examine the influence which the religion of the country had upon them . 68. Painting and ...
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... architecture of Egypt , three points offer themselves for consider- ation , construction , form , and decoration . IN CONSTRUCTION , if solidity be a merit , no nation has equalled them . Notwithstanding the continued effect of time ...
... architecture of Egypt , three points offer themselves for consider- ation , construction , form , and decoration . IN CONSTRUCTION , if solidity be a merit , no nation has equalled them . Notwithstanding the continued effect of time ...
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... architecture . Their character is shortness and thickness . They vary from three to eleven feet in diameter . the last dimension being the largest diameter that Pococke observed , as in height the tallest was forty feet . Such ere some ...
... architecture . Their character is shortness and thickness . They vary from three to eleven feet in diameter . the last dimension being the largest diameter that Pococke observed , as in height the tallest was forty feet . Such ere some ...
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Joseph Gwilt Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau Papworth. SECT . XI . 1 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE 133. The architecture of Greece is identical with columnar architecture . Writers on the subject have so invariably treated the hut as the type on which ...
Joseph Gwilt Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau Papworth. SECT . XI . 1 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE 133. The architecture of Greece is identical with columnar architecture . Writers on the subject have so invariably treated the hut as the type on which ...
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... architecture . of Greece is the father of poets . To Homer we are obliged to recur , little as we approve of the architectural graphic flights in which the poet is wont generally to indulge . Though the Odyssey may not be of so high ...
... architecture . of Greece is the father of poets . To Homer we are obliged to recur , little as we approve of the architectural graphic flights in which the poet is wont generally to indulge . Though the Odyssey may not be of so high ...
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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