Rudimentary Architecture for the Use of Beginners and Students: The Orders, and Their Æsthetic Principles

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J. Weale, 1848 - 96 páginas
 

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Página 7 - ... journey from the place where the statues are found ; and at Memnonium is a colossal statue, which, when entire, weighed 887 tons. The raising of the obelisks is considered a far greater test of mechanical skill than the transport of these prodigious weights ; but into the mode that was adopted we have no insight from any representations yet discovered. Of the taste, style, and character of Egyptian Architecture, little can be said, beyond admiration at the immensity of the works and the patience...
Página 57 - The capital has two rows of leaves, eight in each row, so disposed that of the taller ones, composing the upper row, one comes in the middle, beneath each face of the abacus, and the lower leaves alternate with the upper ones, coming between the stems of the latter; so that in the first or lower tier of leaves there is in the middle of each face, a space between two leaves occupied by the stem of the central leaf above them. Over these two rows is a third series of eight leaves, turned so as to support...
Página 4 - ... workmen in the rubbish. In all these excavations, walls of burnt brick, laid in lime mortar of a very good quality, are seen ; and in addition to the substances generally strewed on the surfaces of all these mounds, we here find fragments of alabaster vessels, fine earthen-ware, marble, and great quantities of varnished tiles, the glazing and colouring of which are surprisingly fresh. In a hollow near the southern part I found a sepulchral urn of earthen-ware, which had been broken in digging,...
Página 127 - ... another constitute the best apartment in the castle: beyond them is the chapel, some parlours for common use, with rooms for the upper servants, composing the east front. The grand stairs, which lie beyond the hall, occupy an area of forty feet square. The kitchen, which is beyond the staircase to the west, is large, and, as well as the hall and chapel, goes up in height to the upper story of the house.
Página 2 - The first reference to Nineveh in Scripture is in Gen. x, 11, "Out of that land went forth Asshur and builded Nineveh," as it is rendered in our version. The other and better version is, " Out of that land (the land of Shinar) went he (Nimrod) to Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth, and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah ; the same is a great city.
Página 27 - In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints. Most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully chosen in a populous square or a pleasant grove, on the margin of the sea-shore, or on some lofty eminence which overlooked the continents of Europe and Asia. The...
Página 10 - ... work, and most probably keeping the smoothest side outwards to form the face of the work. The workmanship of these walls is nothing more than that of the modern fencing without mortar, the interstices between the larger stones being filled up with others of smaller size, unworked, and merely heaped on one another. Pausanias informs us, that when the Argives attempted to destroy Tiryns, the walls were so strong that they could not throw them down: he also describes them to be equally worthy of...
Página 11 - AS the subject of which is two lions, with their fore-paws resting on a pedestal : from this the gateway takes its name. This sculpture (on a triangular stone over the architrave) is the most ancient specimen of this kind of Grecian art ; it is 10 feet 6 inches wide at the base, and 9 feet in height : between the lions is a semicircular pillar, bearing some resemblance to the Doric Order, although, contrary to jthe general usage, it increases in size from the bottom to the top.
Página 22 - One peculiarity of the Grecian Doric frieze is, that the end triglyphs, instead of being, like the others, in the same axis or central line as the columns beneath, are placed quite up to the edge or outer angle of the frieze.
Página 4 - B. c., an extensive and splendid palace *xisted on each side of the Euphrates, connected by a tunnel under the river, and likewise that a bridge was built by Nitocris to connect the two parts of the city divided by the Euphrates. The piers were of large hewn stones, in order to erect which the course of the river was diverted, and its bed left dry. The city was brought to its highest degree of perfection by Nebuchadnezzar, about the year 600 B.

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