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... influences every other that succeeds it , and the latter ones cannot be understood without the study of those which preceded them . But the preceding forms , excepting so far as they throw light on the origin of the arch , -excepting ...
... influences every other that succeeds it , and the latter ones cannot be understood without the study of those which preceded them . But the preceding forms , excepting so far as they throw light on the origin of the arch , -excepting ...
Page xxi
... influence of physical causes - each style retains traces of its first origin - Character of Transitional periods .. CHAPTER III . DIVISION OF STYLES IN ARCHITECTURE . Impossibility of dividing on a single principle - comparative ...
... influence of physical causes - each style retains traces of its first origin - Character of Transitional periods .. CHAPTER III . DIVISION OF STYLES IN ARCHITECTURE . Impossibility of dividing on a single principle - comparative ...
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... influence .. CHAPTER V. OF THE ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF WESTERN ASIA . Persian remains - more valuable for sculpture than architecture - Persepolis -character of the columns - excavations - timber origin of the style- character of the ...
... influence .. CHAPTER V. OF THE ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE OF WESTERN ASIA . Persian remains - more valuable for sculpture than architecture - Persepolis -character of the columns - excavations - timber origin of the style- character of the ...
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... influence out of Italy - characteristics of Basilican architecture - arcades - apses - St . Paul at Rome - imperfections of the style .. 151 CHAPTER IV . OF OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY CONTENTS . xxiii.
... influence out of Italy - characteristics of Basilican architecture - arcades - apses - St . Paul at Rome - imperfections of the style .. 151 CHAPTER IV . OF OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY CONTENTS . xxiii.
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... INFLUENCE OF BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY . Churches at Ravenna - St . Fosca , Torcello - St . Mark - St . Ciriacus , Ancona 174 CHAPTER VII . OF THE ROMANESQUE OF ITALY OR LOMBARD STYLE . Its introduction an era in art - proportions ...
... INFLUENCE OF BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY . Churches at Ravenna - St . Fosca , Torcello - St . Mark - St . Ciriacus , Ancona 174 CHAPTER VII . OF THE ROMANESQUE OF ITALY OR LOMBARD STYLE . Its introduction an era in art - proportions ...
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abacus aisles ancient appears apse Arabian arcades archi architects architrave basilicas beauty buildings Byzantine Byzantine architecture capital Cathedral century chancel character choir Christian churches classical clerestory columns construction Corinthian cupola decoration distinct dome doorway Doric Doric order Early Gothic Egypt Egyptian England enriched entablature erected examples excavations exhibit existence feature flat foliage gables genuine German Gothic architecture Gothic art Grecian Grecian architecture Greece Greek heathen height idea imitation Italian Italy jambs latter less Lombard magnificent massive monuments mouldings nations nave Norman occur octagonal origin ornament outline Oxford Cathedral Pelasgian perfect period Perpendicular pier pier-arches pilasters pillars pointed arch portico Price principle proportion pure remains remarkable Roman Roman architecture Romanesque Rome roof round arch rude Saracens Saxon sculpture seems shafts sometimes spire splendour square stone structures style tecture temple tion tower tracery Transition triforium ture usually vaulting vertical wall whole
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Page 316 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand, 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow-wreaths to stone.
Page 315 - With massive arches broad and round, That rose alternate, row and row, On ponderous columns, short and low, Built ere the art was known, By pointed aisle, and shafted stalk, The arcades of an alleyed walk To emulate in stone. On the deep walls the heathen Dane Had poured his impious rage in vain ; And needful was such strength to these, EXposed t'o the tempestuous seas, Scourged by the winds...