An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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Page 60
... period when the regular temple became an indispensable appendage to the religion of the country . It is closely connected with that revolution which abolished the civil , judicial , and military offices of kings leaving the sacerdotal ...
... period when the regular temple became an indispensable appendage to the religion of the country . It is closely connected with that revolution which abolished the civil , judicial , and military offices of kings leaving the sacerdotal ...
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... period assigned to the siege of Troy and the time of Solon and Pisistratus , or about 590 B. C. But it is , however , certain that within four centuries after Homer's time , notwithstanding their originally coarse manners , the Grecians ...
... period assigned to the siege of Troy and the time of Solon and Pisistratus , or about 590 B. C. But it is , however , certain that within four centuries after Homer's time , notwithstanding their originally coarse manners , the Grecians ...
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... period , and at the same time forms a fine entrance to the Acropolis of Athens . At the rear of its Doric portico the roof of the vestibule was supported within by two rows of Ionic columns , whose bases still remain . By the ...
... period , and at the same time forms a fine entrance to the Acropolis of Athens . At the rear of its Doric portico the roof of the vestibule was supported within by two rows of Ionic columns , whose bases still remain . By the ...
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... period that their houses received much attention . Except in the open courts of them , it is difficult to conceive any application of the orders . It is certain that they frequently consisted of more than one story ; but beyond this all ...
... period that their houses received much attention . Except in the open courts of them , it is difficult to conceive any application of the orders . It is certain that they frequently consisted of more than one story ; but beyond this all ...
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... period , would go far to disprove all Lanzi's reasoning , for , as we have noticed in the preceding ar ticle , the arch was unknown in Greece till after the time of Alexander . According to Gori ( Museum Etruscum ) , vestiges of ...
... period , would go far to disprove all Lanzi's reasoning , for , as we have noticed in the preceding ar ticle , the arch was unknown in Greece till after the time of Alexander . According to Gori ( Museum Etruscum ) , vestiges of ...
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