An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... piers of Greece , Italy , France , and Britain , and arrived in those places by a route nearly along the forty - fifth parallel of north latitude ; HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE . BOOK I. CHAP ARCHITECTURE OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES Druidical and ...
... piers of Greece , Italy , France , and Britain , and arrived in those places by a route nearly along the forty - fifth parallel of north latitude ; HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE . BOOK I. CHAP ARCHITECTURE OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES Druidical and ...
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... piers , buttresses , and pilasters supplied the place of the column . The timber they used was that of the date tree , posts of which were used in their domestic architecture , round which , says Strabo , they twist reeds and apply a ...
... piers , buttresses , and pilasters supplied the place of the column . The timber they used was that of the date tree , posts of which were used in their domestic architecture , round which , says Strabo , they twist reeds and apply a ...
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... piers , and nearly the whole length of them , are large figures of bulls , cut in bas - relief . The heads of these animals are entirely destroyed ; and their breasts and fore feet project from the piers : the two of the first portal ...
... piers , and nearly the whole length of them , are large figures of bulls , cut in bas - relief . The heads of these animals are entirely destroyed ; and their breasts and fore feet project from the piers : the two of the first portal ...
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... piers . In the specimen cited at Cordova , the span , from pier to pier is less than 20 ft . , which would not have required much skill to vault , yet we find the ceilings of timber . The use of orders was unknown to them ; the antique ...
... piers . In the specimen cited at Cordova , the span , from pier to pier is less than 20 ft . , which would not have required much skill to vault , yet we find the ceilings of timber . The use of orders was unknown to them ; the antique ...
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... the stamp of his genius , his bridge over the Danube must have been a surprising effort . According to Dio Cassius , this bridge was constructed with twenty stone piers in Fig . 111. COLUMN OF TRAJAN . the river ,. CHAP . II . 79 ROMAN .
... the stamp of his genius , his bridge over the Danube must have been a surprising effort . According to Dio Cassius , this bridge was constructed with twenty stone piers in Fig . 111. COLUMN OF TRAJAN . the river ,. CHAP . II . 79 ROMAN .
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