An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1881 - 1395 Seiten |
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... architecture which almost surpasses belief . Almansor , the brother and ... Roman town were discovered in a sandy plain : the vegetable food of Cairoan ... architecture in Europe . They certainly understood the science of architecture ...
... architecture which almost surpasses belief . Almansor , the brother and ... Roman town were discovered in a sandy plain : the vegetable food of Cairoan ... architecture in Europe . They certainly understood the science of architecture ...
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... architecture ; and , in the South , it produced the Arabian , Saracenic , or Moresque style , by whichever name the reader may choose to distinguish it . Both were strongly impregnated with the vices and defects into which the Roman ...
... architecture ; and , in the South , it produced the Arabian , Saracenic , or Moresque style , by whichever name the reader may choose to distinguish it . Both were strongly impregnated with the vices and defects into which the Roman ...
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... Roman architecture , we find the dome , which in Greek architecture never occurs . In the latter , the arch is never seen ; in the former , it is often an important feature . Indeed , the columnar style , as used by the Greeks ...
... Roman architecture , we find the dome , which in Greek architecture never occurs . In the latter , the arch is never seen ; in the former , it is often an important feature . Indeed , the columnar style , as used by the Greeks ...
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... Roman citizens were not very much enlightened on the arts , or that he was a singular blockhead . We have now arrived at the period at which Greece was despoiled and Rome enriched , and must pursue the history of the art among the Romans ...
... Roman citizens were not very much enlightened on the arts , or that he was a singular blockhead . We have now arrived at the period at which Greece was despoiled and Rome enriched , and must pursue the history of the art among the Romans ...
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... architecture as connected with Roman ; merely adding here , that in about a year after the death of Alexander the nation fell under the dominion of the Romans . SECT . XIII . ROMAN ARCHITECTURE . 182. The Romans can scarcely be said to ...
... architecture as connected with Roman ; merely adding here , that in about a year after the death of Alexander the nation fell under the dominion of the Romans . SECT . XIII . ROMAN ARCHITECTURE . 182. The Romans can scarcely be said to ...
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