The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... architrave and cornice : over the middle of the door , and upon the lintel- ing architrave , is carved a winged globe : the height of the columns , according to Denon's representation , is from five to six diameters . The colunins have ...
... architrave and cornice : over the middle of the door , and upon the lintel- ing architrave , is carved a winged globe : the height of the columns , according to Denon's representation , is from five to six diameters . The colunins have ...
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... architrave : the ends of the joists over the architrave were not in vertical channels , froming the triglyphs , for preventing the rain from adhering to them . The cornice was formed by the projecting timbers of the roof ; the ends of ...
... architrave : the ends of the joists over the architrave were not in vertical channels , froming the triglyphs , for preventing the rain from adhering to them . The cornice was formed by the projecting timbers of the roof ; the ends of ...
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... architrave , resting on the columns , con- sisting of a crowning band with the guttere and tenia pending therefrom , under the triglyphs ; the frize , consisting of a capital , or cymatium , and equidistant triglyph , leaving square ...
... architrave , resting on the columns , con- sisting of a crowning band with the guttere and tenia pending therefrom , under the triglyphs ; the frize , consisting of a capital , or cymatium , and equidistant triglyph , leaving square ...
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... architrave . . The Doric order was the only order known in Greece , or its colonies , anterior to the Macedonian conquest . The Ionic succeeded , and appears to have been the favourite order , not only in Ionia , but all over Asia Minor ...
... architrave . . The Doric order was the only order known in Greece , or its colonies , anterior to the Macedonian conquest . The Ionic succeeded , and appears to have been the favourite order , not only in Ionia , but all over Asia Minor ...
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... architrave and base of this order , they may be the same as those used in the Ionic ; in- deed the Ionic entablature itself would , on many occasions , be a very appropriate one for the Corinthian . When the columns are fluted , the ...
... architrave and base of this order , they may be the same as those used in the Ionic ; in- deed the Ionic entablature itself would , on many occasions , be a very appropriate one for the Corinthian . When the columns are fluted , the ...
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