A Rudimentary Manual of Architecture: Being a History and Explanation of the Principal Styles of European Architecture, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Renaissance, with Their Chief Variations Described and Illustrated; to which is Appended a Glossary of Technical TermsLongmans, Green, 1870 - 304 páginas |
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... natural or more simple and easy , for a man wanting to cross or cover an intervening space , than to throw a log across it to rest on either side ? To this trabeated principle of the entablature , which is the simplest form of ...
... natural or more simple and easy , for a man wanting to cross or cover an intervening space , than to throw a log across it to rest on either side ? To this trabeated principle of the entablature , which is the simplest form of ...
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... , with their keen perception of beauty , sought in natural objects the models of their works in architecture , sculpture , and painting . The proportions of the human figure were zealously studied in 14 Manual of Architecture .
... , with their keen perception of beauty , sought in natural objects the models of their works in architecture , sculpture , and painting . The proportions of the human figure were zealously studied in 14 Manual of Architecture .
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... natural forms , the religion of the Greeks influenced greatly the cha- racter of their architecture . There was no need of aspiring forms to raise the souls of the Greek worshippers . Their ideas were confined to the earth on which they ...
... natural forms , the religion of the Greeks influenced greatly the cha- racter of their architecture . There was no need of aspiring forms to raise the souls of the Greek worshippers . Their ideas were confined to the earth on which they ...
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... natural tendency of all architecture to develop first . in solidity and afterwards in height , the proportions J.K & R.SC . FIG . 15. GREEK IONIC ORDER . ( From the Temple of Athena Polias at Priene . ) of the columns were altered and ...
... natural tendency of all architecture to develop first . in solidity and afterwards in height , the proportions J.K & R.SC . FIG . 15. GREEK IONIC ORDER . ( From the Temple of Athena Polias at Priene . ) of the columns were altered and ...
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... natural tendency towards the centre of the arc which they formed , a self - supporting open space was produced , of greater extent than could by any means have been produced by an architrave , and the firmness of which was only ...
... natural tendency towards the centre of the arc which they formed , a self - supporting open space was produced , of greater extent than could by any means have been produced by an architrave , and the firmness of which was only ...
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