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... upon certain laws of proportion, and upon rules based on a refined analysis of
what is suitable in the highest degree to the end proposed, it can pretend to no
rank of a high class. It is only when a nation has arrived at a certain degree of ...
... upon certain laws of proportion, and upon rules based on a refined analysis of
what is suitable in the highest degree to the end proposed, it can pretend to no
rank of a high class. It is only when a nation has arrived at a certain degree of ...
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Nature, in one sense, is the model upon which architecture is founded; not as a
subject of imitation, but as presenting for imitation principles of the harmony,
proportion, effect, and beauty, for which the arts generally are indebted to nature.
Nature, in one sense, is the model upon which architecture is founded; not as a
subject of imitation, but as presenting for imitation principles of the harmony,
proportion, effect, and beauty, for which the arts generally are indebted to nature.
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Their width diminishes in the same proportion, so that a line drawn from the base
to the summit touches the edge of each step. So great a difference in the
measures by different authors appears, that we here subjoin those of the pyramid
of ...
Their width diminishes in the same proportion, so that a line drawn from the base
to the summit touches the edge of each step. So great a difference in the
measures by different authors appears, that we here subjoin those of the pyramid
of ...
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The figures that are sculptured on the walls of the temples are mostly in low relief,
and are destitute of proportion; and, when in groups, are devoid of sentiment.
Painting was another mode of decoration. The grottoes of the Thebaid, and other
...
The figures that are sculptured on the walls of the temples are mostly in low relief,
and are destitute of proportion; and, when in groups, are devoid of sentiment.
Painting was another mode of decoration. The grottoes of the Thebaid, and other
...
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Many temples similar to it were afterwards raised in the other parts of Achaia,
though, at that time, its proportions were not precisely established. When the
Athenians, in a general assembly of the states of Greece, sent over into Asia, by
the ...
Many temples similar to it were afterwards raised in the other parts of Achaia,
though, at that time, its proportions were not precisely established. When the
Athenians, in a general assembly of the states of Greece, sent over into Asia, by
the ...
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Seite 6 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Seite 316 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Seite 16 - The western face, which is the least elevated, is the most interesting on account of the appearance of building it presents. Near the summit of it appears a low wall, with interruptions, built of unburnt bricks, mixed up with chopped straw or reeds, and cemented with clay-mortar of great thickness, having between every layer a layer of reeds ; and on the north side are also some vestiges of a similar construction.
Seite 375 - As 360 is to the degrees in the arc of the sector, so is the area of the whole circle to the area of the sector.
Seite 17 - ... in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which is broken and irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending through a third of its height.
Seite ix - Vive, vale ; si quid novisti rectius istis, Candidus impertí ; si non, his utere mecum.
Seite 51 - Twenty-five years, and above three millions sterling, were employed by the founder: his liberal taste invited the artists of Constantinople, the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age; and the buildings were sustained or adorned by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African, of Greek and Italian marble. The hall of audience was...
Seite 372 - PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram, whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboides.
Seite 199 - The taste of all these stately mansions was that bastard style which intervened between Gothic and Grecian architecture; or which perhaps was the style that had been invented for the houses of the nobility, when they first ventured on the settlement of the kingdom after the termination of the quarrel between the Roses, to abandon their fortified dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence...
Seite 216 - What the back-ground is in painting, in architecture is the real ground on which the building is erected ; and no architect took greater care that his work should not appear crude and hard, that is, that it did not abruptly start out of the ground without expectation or preparation.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical |
| Autor | Joseph Gwilt |
| Verlag | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 |
| Original von | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitalisiert | 9. Okt. 2007 |
| Länge | 1089 Seiten |
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