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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... Ornament 110 , 111. Diagrams , King Post and Queen Post Roofs 112. Window , Llan Tysilio Church . 114. Flowing Window - head , Oxford Cathedral · Circular Windows , Westminster and Lincoln 157 158 162 163 169 · 170 171 . 173 173 176 182 ...
... Ornament 110 , 111. Diagrams , King Post and Queen Post Roofs 112. Window , Llan Tysilio Church . 114. Flowing Window - head , Oxford Cathedral · Circular Windows , Westminster and Lincoln 157 158 162 163 169 · 170 171 . 173 173 176 182 ...
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... ornament full of refinement , dignity , and beauty , and the three Greek orders exhibit a perfection of form never surpassed by human skill . Under the constructive principle of the ARCH a totally different system is adopted , the ...
... ornament full of refinement , dignity , and beauty , and the three Greek orders exhibit a perfection of form never surpassed by human skill . Under the constructive principle of the ARCH a totally different system is adopted , the ...
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... ornaments were as essentially a part of the Doric order as the carved ornaments were of the Corinthian , and made it , when perfect , a richer and more ornamental , as it was a more solid and stable , order than the latter . ' The ...
... ornaments were as essentially a part of the Doric order as the carved ornaments were of the Corinthian , and made it , when perfect , a richer and more ornamental , as it was a more solid and stable , order than the latter . ' The ...
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... ornaments which were only painted in the Doric were carved in relief in the Ionic . Following the natural tendency of all architecture to develop first . in solidity and afterwards in height , the proportions J.K & R.SC . FIG . 15 ...
... ornaments which were only painted in the Doric were carved in relief in the Ionic . Following the natural tendency of all architecture to develop first . in solidity and afterwards in height , the proportions J.K & R.SC . FIG . 15 ...
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... ornaments , its principal treasures had long since disappeared . It is also narrated by Zosimus , a Greek historian of the fifth century , that , when Athens was assailed by Attila , king of the Huns and one of the most celebrated ...
... ornaments , its principal treasures had long since disappeared . It is also narrated by Zosimus , a Greek historian of the fifth century , that , when Athens was assailed by Attila , king of the Huns and one of the most celebrated ...
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