Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-RomanGeorge Bell, 1878 - 600 strán (strany) |
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... beauty . In an architectural point of view , the last is the principal , though not the sole element ; and , accordingly , the theory of architecture is occupied for the most part with æsthetic considerations , or the prin- ciples of beauty ...
... beauty . In an architectural point of view , the last is the principal , though not the sole element ; and , accordingly , the theory of architecture is occupied for the most part with æsthetic considerations , or the prin- ciples of beauty ...
Strana 3
... beauty of the masonry in the interior of the Pyramids , prove the degree of skill the Egyptians had reached at a time long anterior to the building of the walls of Tiryns , and consequently to the rudest attempts in masonry in Italy or ...
... beauty of the masonry in the interior of the Pyramids , prove the degree of skill the Egyptians had reached at a time long anterior to the building of the walls of Tiryns , and consequently to the rudest attempts in masonry in Italy or ...
Strana 8
... beauty ; and lastly , the third or perfect style - so in masonry , the first or primitive style was but a piling up of rough blocks which might be suggested to any people ; the second style may be con- sidered an improvement of the ...
... beauty ; and lastly , the third or perfect style - so in masonry , the first or primitive style was but a piling up of rough blocks which might be suggested to any people ; the second style may be con- sidered an improvement of the ...
Strana 17
... beauty of its decorations . Vitruvius distinguishes five species of atria : I. The Tuscanicum , or Tuscan atrium , the oldest and simplest of all . It was merely an apartment , the roof of which was supported by four beams crossing each ...
... beauty of its decorations . Vitruvius distinguishes five species of atria : I. The Tuscanicum , or Tuscan atrium , the oldest and simplest of all . It was merely an apartment , the roof of which was supported by four beams crossing each ...
Strana 24
... double ranges of circular columns , which are continued also behind the square piers front- ing the entrance . Passing through this , we come to a hypostyle PYLON . hall of great beauty , formed by two ranges of. 24 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY .
... double ranges of circular columns , which are continued also behind the square piers front- ing the entrance . Passing through this , we come to a hypostyle PYLON . hall of great beauty , formed by two ranges of. 24 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY .
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Handbook of Archaeology. Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman Hodder Michael Westropp Úplné zobrazenie - 1867 |
Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-Roman Hodder Michael Westropp Úplné zobrazenie - 1878 |
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according alphabet ancient antiquity Apollo appears arch architecture artists Athens Augustus bas-reliefs baths bearing beauty born British Museum bronze building built Bust Cæsar called camei cameo celebrated cella character collection colour columns Corinth Corinthian decastyle deceased deities Doric drapery dynasty earliest Egypt Egyptian emperor engraved stones erected Etruria Etruscan example executed exhibit feet figures flourish frequently front gems glyptic art goddess gods Grecian Greece Greek Hadrian head height Hercules Hexastyle hieroglyphics imitation inscriptions intagli intaglio Ionic Italy Julius Cæsar Jupiter kind king later period Lysippus marble monuments obelisks origin ornaments oval painted vases painter Parthenon peripteral Phidias placed Pliny Pompeii portico Praxiteles pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign remarkable representation represented rings Roman Rome round Sard sardonyx scarabæi sculpture seated sepulchral Severus side signet sometimes statuary statues style subjects supposed tablet Tarquinii temple theatre Thebes tion tomb Trajan usually Vatican Venus Vitruvius vixit walls wife
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Strana 489 - Enos Lases iuvate Neve lue rue Marmar sins incurrere in pleores Satur fu fere Mars limen sali sta berber Semunis Alternis advocapit conctos Enos Marmor iuvato Triumpe. The first five lines were repeated thrice, and Triumpe five times.3 Quintilian tells us that " the hymns of the Salii were hardly intelligible to the priests themselves...
Strana 532 - Petronia, a priest's wife, the type of modesty. — In this place I lay my bones ; spare your tears, dear husband and daughters, and believe that it is forbidden to weep for one who lives in God.
Strana 516 - DESCRIPTVM ET RECOGNITVM EX TABVLA AENEA QVAE FIXA EST ROMAE IN CAPITOLIO AD ARA (sic) GENTIS IVLIAE LATERE DEXTRO Ora al Museo di Sassari, vedi tav.
Strana 149 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Strana 226 - ... these are the marks, in very manifold gradations, however, of the figures which were called satyrs in the genuine language of Greek poetry and art, from which the Roman poets first ventured to depart, who identified them with the Boman fauni, who are described as half men, half goats, and with horns.
Strana 88 - ... were introduced into Rome in the year 390, in order to appease the wrath of the gods for a pestilence then devastating the city, and that ludiones were sent for from Etruria, who acted to the sound of the pipe, in the Etruscan fashion.
Strana 298 - All these were discovered in the sepulchres of the ancients, but the circumstances under which they were found differ according to locality. In Greece, the graves are generally small, being designed for single corpses, which accounts for the comparatively small size of the vases discovered in that country. At Athens, the earlier graves are sunk deepest in the soil, and those at Corinth, especially such as contain the early Corinthian vases, are found by boring to a depth of several feet beneath the...
Strana 122 - ... have said, could not be inserted without special permission from the emperor. Those whose means or interest were insufficient to obtain a private pipe, were obliged to fetch water from the public fountains. It is calculated by M. Rendelet that the nine aqueducts described by Frontinus furnished Rome with a supply of water equal to that carried down by a river thirty feet broad, by six deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second.
Strana 137 - The whole structure, 140 feet in height, was crowned by a chariot group in white marble, in which, probably, stood Mausolos himself, represented after his translation to the world of demigods and heroes.
Strana 444 - The hieroglyphic figures were arranged in vertical columns or horizontal lines, and grouped together as circumstances required, so as to leave no spaces unnecessarily vacant. They were written from right to left, or from left to' right. The order in which the characters were to be read, was shown by the direction in which the figures are placed, as their heads are invariably turned towards the reader. A single line of...