An Encyclopædia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, 1888 - 1443 Seiten |
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... ornament , and moreover fashioned into bundles , seems to have been the type of some of the species of their columns . In their entablatures and elsewhere , animals of all sorts occasionally find a place as ornaments , even down to ...
... ornament , and moreover fashioned into bundles , seems to have been the type of some of the species of their columns . In their entablatures and elsewhere , animals of all sorts occasionally find a place as ornaments , even down to ...
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... ornaments . 104. It is said that there are 10,000 miao , or idol temples in Pekin and its environs . Some of these are of considerable size , others are more distinguished for their beauty ; there is , however , no sufficient account of ...
... ornaments . 104. It is said that there are 10,000 miao , or idol temples in Pekin and its environs . Some of these are of considerable size , others are more distinguished for their beauty ; there is , however , no sufficient account of ...
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... ornaments . The antiquity of them is unknown . In the district of Oaxaca , south of Mexico , stands the palace of Mitla , contracted from Miguitlan , signi- fying , in Aztec , the place of woe . By the Tzapotec Indians the ruins are ...
... ornaments . The antiquity of them is unknown . In the district of Oaxaca , south of Mexico , stands the palace of Mitla , contracted from Miguitlan , signi- fying , in Aztec , the place of woe . By the Tzapotec Indians the ruins are ...
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... ornaments . But , with all this perversion of taste , the general form of the plans of the edifices altered not that of the temples more particularly continued unchanged . Some great convulsion was necessary before they could undergo ...
... ornaments . But , with all this perversion of taste , the general form of the plans of the edifices altered not that of the temples more particularly continued unchanged . Some great convulsion was necessary before they could undergo ...
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... ornament , the other of a character approaching the delicacy , decorations , and proportions of a female . The ... ornaments should be unobtrusive The following is the fabulous account of the origin of the capital of this order ...
... ornament , the other of a character approaching the delicacy , decorations , and proportions of a female . The ... ornaments should be unobtrusive The following is the fabulous account of the origin of the capital of this order ...
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