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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... height of a column or the width of a triglyph is known , it is often possible to calculate the size and proportions of an entire building . Greek architecture produced a form of perfect beauty in its porticoed temple , but only one form ...
... height of a column or the width of a triglyph is known , it is often possible to calculate the size and proportions of an entire building . Greek architecture produced a form of perfect beauty in its porticoed temple , but only one form ...
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... height in their buildings . Hence it is that Greek architecture may be described as faultlessly elegant and beautiful rather than ma- jestic or grand . As the column and entablature form so im- portant a 16 Manual of Architecture .
... height in their buildings . Hence it is that Greek architecture may be described as faultlessly elegant and beautiful rather than ma- jestic or grand . As the column and entablature form so im- portant a 16 Manual of Architecture .
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... height above the building , they would all meet at that point ; the horizontal lines possessing a curvature corresponding to the arc formed by the conjunction of the upright lines with the sup- posed given point . There is a passage in ...
... height above the building , they would all meet at that point ; the horizontal lines possessing a curvature corresponding to the arc formed by the conjunction of the upright lines with the sup- posed given point . There is a passage in ...
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... height , and then diminish to the top ; this is called an Entasis , and was em- ployed to mitigate the effect that would have been produced by the gradual tapering of the column from the bottom . The object of an entasis is to correct ...
... height , and then diminish to the top ; this is called an Entasis , and was em- ployed to mitigate the effect that would have been produced by the gradual tapering of the column from the bottom . The object of an entasis is to correct ...
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... height of the Doric columns in the earlier examples is about four times its diameter at the base , but in later work it is from five and a half to six times its diameter . Speak- ing generally , the entablature is in height equal to ...
... height of the Doric columns in the earlier examples is about four times its diameter at the base , but in later work it is from five and a half to six times its diameter . Speak- ing generally , the entablature is in height equal to ...
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