An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... solid , being formed by one of the vertical divisions of the western façade . Above the solid part , the tower rises to a certain height octangularly , open on all sides , and flanked by four sets of open spiral stair- cases , which are ...
... solid , being formed by one of the vertical divisions of the western façade . Above the solid part , the tower rises to a certain height octangularly , open on all sides , and flanked by four sets of open spiral stair- cases , which are ...
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... solid vault , whose diameter is near 139 ft . at its springing , at which place its thickness is near 10 ft . exclusive of the ribs . As the inner and outer vaults are not con- centric , the interval between them increases as they rise ...
... solid vault , whose diameter is near 139 ft . at its springing , at which place its thickness is near 10 ft . exclusive of the ribs . As the inner and outer vaults are not con- centric , the interval between them increases as they rise ...
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... solid wall pierced in the windows . The piers of the lower arcade are orna- mented with Doric columns , whose entablature is charged with triglyphs in its frieze , and its metopa are sculptured with various symbols . The imposts of the ...
... solid wall pierced in the windows . The piers of the lower arcade are orna- mented with Doric columns , whose entablature is charged with triglyphs in its frieze , and its metopa are sculptured with various symbols . The imposts of the ...
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... solid , strong , and suitable to the purposes of the building . Except in the middle gate and the architectural parts , the work is rusticated . The exterior façade stands on a wall , with two large pyra- midal pilasters of marble ...
... solid , strong , and suitable to the purposes of the building . Except in the middle gate and the architectural parts , the work is rusticated . The exterior façade stands on a wall , with two large pyra- midal pilasters of marble ...
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... the species of co- lumns usually employed . The solid character of the great prison is appropriate , and more in consonance with the rules of the art . : SECT . XVII . FRENCH ARCHITECTURE . 357. The L 4 CHAP . II . 151 ITALIAN .
... the species of co- lumns usually employed . The solid character of the great prison is appropriate , and more in consonance with the rules of the art . : SECT . XVII . FRENCH ARCHITECTURE . 357. The L 4 CHAP . II . 151 ITALIAN .
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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.