An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... TEMPLE OF ELEPHANTA . Fig . 39 whom they worshipped , or the actions of the heroes whom they represented . At the end of the cavern there is a dark recess , about 20 ft . square , entered by four doors , each flanked by gigantic figures ...
... TEMPLE OF ELEPHANTA . Fig . 39 whom they worshipped , or the actions of the heroes whom they represented . At the end of the cavern there is a dark recess , about 20 ft . square , entered by four doors , each flanked by gigantic figures ...
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... temple and piscina , to which is given the name of the Stream of Eternal Joy . To the temple is attached a portico of thirty - six columns , in four parallel ranks , whose cen- tral intercolumniation is twice the width of those at the ...
... temple and piscina , to which is given the name of the Stream of Eternal Joy . To the temple is attached a portico of thirty - six columns , in four parallel ranks , whose cen- tral intercolumniation is twice the width of those at the ...
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... temple at this place ( fig . 44. ) . The essential differences between Indian and Egyp- Fig . 44 . TEMPLE AT MADURAH . tian architecture , in connection with the sculpture applied to them , have been well given in the Encyclopédie ...
... temple at this place ( fig . 44. ) . The essential differences between Indian and Egyp- Fig . 44 . TEMPLE AT MADURAH . tian architecture , in connection with the sculpture applied to them , have been well given in the Encyclopédie ...
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... temples , leaving the holy place itself to be seen only at a great distance . This was of little extent , con- taining merely a living idol , or the representation of one . The larger portion of the temple was laid out for the reception ...
... temples , leaving the holy place itself to be seen only at a great distance . This was of little extent , con- taining merely a living idol , or the representation of one . The larger portion of the temple was laid out for the reception ...
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... temple held between the legs and another in one of its paws . According to Denon , the antiquity of the Egyptian temples may be comparatively deter- mined from their size ; the larger ones being posterior to the smaller . Since ...
... temple held between the legs and another in one of its paws . According to Denon , the antiquity of the Egyptian temples may be comparatively deter- mined from their size ; the larger ones being posterior to the smaller . Since ...
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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.