An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... Roman in some measure qualifies the extent to which he would have them ... architecture , it is of the highest importance to preserve a distinct and ... ARCHITECTURE , considered in - Chap . 1. ORIGIN . 1. Wants of Man . 2. Origin and ...
... Roman in some measure qualifies the extent to which he would have them ... architecture , it is of the highest importance to preserve a distinct and ... ARCHITECTURE , considered in - Chap . 1. ORIGIN . 1. Wants of Man . 2. Origin and ...
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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 is ... 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 is ... 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 block head . 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 block head . 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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