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... mouldings - doorways - windows - decorative arcades - shafts and columns - Note on Norwegian churches CHAPTER XIII . --- OF THE INFLUENCE OF LATE ARCHITECTURE IN THE EAST . Latin conquest of Constantinople - Venetian conquests - Latin ...
... mouldings - doorways - windows - decorative arcades - shafts and columns - Note on Norwegian churches CHAPTER XIII . --- OF THE INFLUENCE OF LATE ARCHITECTURE IN THE EAST . Latin conquest of Constantinople - Venetian conquests - Latin ...
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... mouldings -chamfers - Other vertical developments - use of horizontal lines - princi- ple of contrast - Vaulting - its necessity - imperfection of the timber roof- Origin of the style - individuals at work in architectural developments ...
... mouldings -chamfers - Other vertical developments - use of horizontal lines - princi- ple of contrast - Vaulting - its necessity - imperfection of the timber roof- Origin of the style - individuals at work in architectural developments ...
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... mouldings - Geometrical style -origin of tracery - first in couplets - retention of the triplet - gradual change in other details - Early Gothic towers - spires - absence of clere- stories even in large churches - doorways - interiors ...
... mouldings - Geometrical style -origin of tracery - first in couplets - retention of the triplet - gradual change in other details - Early Gothic towers - spires - absence of clere- stories even in large churches - doorways - interiors ...
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... mouldings , the living foliage of their capitals , the friezes where Lapithæ and Centaurs are called to breath and motion by the chisel of a Pheidias , did yet preserve unchanged , undisguised , the one un- varying model , 2 the wooden ...
... mouldings , the living foliage of their capitals , the friezes where Lapithæ and Centaurs are called to breath and motion by the chisel of a Pheidias , did yet preserve unchanged , undisguised , the one un- varying model , 2 the wooden ...
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... moulding , till all are fused into a perfect whole ; are at once a sub- ject of most curious inquiry , and one tending to point out more strongly than any other part of their history , the real animating principles of successive styles ...
... moulding , till all are fused into a perfect whole ; are at once a sub- ject of most curious inquiry , and one tending to point out more strongly than any other part of their history , the real animating principles of successive styles ...
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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...