A Rudimentary Manual of Architecture: Being a History and Explanation of the Principal Styles of European Architecture, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Renaissance, with Their Chief Variations Described and Illustrated; to which is Appended a Glossary of Technical TermsLongmans, Green, 1870 - 304 páginas |
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... carved upon the surface . The original types of the various styles of archi- tecture may be in a measure traced back to the very earliest times , and were mainly determined by the habits of life of the tribes who originally peopled the ...
... carved upon the surface . The original types of the various styles of archi- tecture may be in a measure traced back to the very earliest times , and were mainly determined by the habits of life of the tribes who originally peopled the ...
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... carved with figures representing the labours of Herakles ( Hercules ) , and the four metopes on each side nearest the eastern end represent the exploits and achievements of Theseus . The remaining metopes and the western pediment were ...
... carved with figures representing the labours of Herakles ( Hercules ) , and the four metopes on each side nearest the eastern end represent the exploits and achievements of Theseus . The remaining metopes and the western pediment were ...
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... carved by Pheidias himself , was enshrined in it . The building , which was of the purest white marble , was www.ww LOWON INNUKV SANUW SWINGIN IN REPAIRS Dacian .. " . " Nil FIG . II . WEST FRONT OF PARTHENON ( RESTORED ) . erected by ...
... carved by Pheidias himself , was enshrined in it . The building , which was of the purest white marble , was www.ww LOWON INNUKV SANUW SWINGIN IN REPAIRS Dacian .. " . " Nil FIG . II . WEST FRONT OF PARTHENON ( RESTORED ) . erected by ...
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... carving representing the birth of FIG . 12 . GS . TWO METOPES FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE PARTHENON . Athena from the brain of Zeus . That on the western pediment represented the mythological FIG . 13 . GROUP FROM THE WESTERN FRIEZE OF ...
... carving representing the birth of FIG . 12 . GS . TWO METOPES FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE PARTHENON . Athena from the brain of Zeus . That on the western pediment represented the mythological FIG . 13 . GROUP FROM THE WESTERN FRIEZE OF ...
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... carved the battle of the Centaurs with the Lapitha ( fig . 12 . ) * The * Many of the sculptured metopes from the Parthenon , together interior fricze contained a representation of the Panathenaic festivals (. VIEW OF THE PARTHENON IN ...
... carved the battle of the Centaurs with the Lapitha ( fig . 12 . ) * The * Many of the sculptured metopes from the Parthenon , together interior fricze contained a representation of the Panathenaic festivals (. VIEW OF THE PARTHENON IN ...
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