An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... colours , on the bricks of which they were depicted , and afterwards burnt in . Such was the city of Babylon in its meridian splendour , that city whose founder ( if it were not Nimrod , sometimes called Belus , ) is unknown . Great as ...
... colours , on the bricks of which they were depicted , and afterwards burnt in . Such was the city of Babylon in its meridian splendour , that city whose founder ( if it were not Nimrod , sometimes called Belus , ) is unknown . Great as ...
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... colours . The sun - dried is considerably larger than the kiln - dried . There is reason for believing that lime cement was more generally used than bitumen or clay ; indeed , Niebuhr says that the bricks laid in bitumen were easily ...
... colours . The sun - dried is considerably larger than the kiln - dried . There is reason for believing that lime cement was more generally used than bitumen or clay ; indeed , Niebuhr says that the bricks laid in bitumen were easily ...
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... colours ; each has a fountain in front . The palace of Chehel Sitoon , or forty pillars , is placed in the middle of an immense square , intersected by canals , and Towards planted with trees . the garden is an open saloon whose ceiling ...
... colours ; each has a fountain in front . The palace of Chehel Sitoon , or forty pillars , is placed in the middle of an immense square , intersected by canals , and Towards planted with trees . the garden is an open saloon whose ceiling ...
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... colour- ing , or composition , is not better than that of their sculpture . ( See an example in fig . 65. ) Yet in both these arts , from the precision with which they are cut and the uniformity of line and pro- portion they exhibit , a ...
... colour- ing , or composition , is not better than that of their sculpture . ( See an example in fig . 65. ) Yet in both these arts , from the precision with which they are cut and the uniformity of line and pro- portion they exhibit , a ...
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... colour , which is darker , and in weight . The author does not tell us whether it is employed for columns . The tse - laû , also called mo - wâng , or king of woods , resembles what we call rosewood ; but its use is confined chiefly to ...
... colour , which is darker , and in weight . The author does not tell us whether it is employed for columns . The tse - laû , also called mo - wâng , or king of woods , resembles what we call rosewood ; but its use is confined chiefly to ...
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