Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-RomanGeorge Bell, 1878 - 600 strán (strany) |
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Strana 1
... building which are calculated to give pleasure to the beholder , are proportion , harmony , and symmetry . Proportion depends essentially upon the employment of mathematical ratios in the dimensions of a building . By harmony is meant ...
... building which are calculated to give pleasure to the beholder , are proportion , harmony , and symmetry . Proportion depends essentially upon the employment of mathematical ratios in the dimensions of a building . By harmony is meant ...
Strana 2
... building timber is scarce , and where there is abundance of large stone in the mountains , the mason element seems to have pre- vailed . In such plains as those of Nineveh and Babylon bricks were used , made of dried or burnt clay ...
... building timber is scarce , and where there is abundance of large stone in the mountains , the mason element seems to have pre- vailed . In such plains as those of Nineveh and Babylon bricks were used , made of dried or burnt clay ...
Strana 3
... buildings . The employment of squared granite blocks , and the 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 ...
... buildings . The employment of squared granite blocks , and the 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 ...
Strana 4
... building walls , which took place after this , was in parallel courses of rectangular stones of unequal size , but of the same height . This style is common in the Phocian cities , and in some parts of Boeotia and Argolis . To that ...
... building walls , which took place after this , was in parallel courses of rectangular stones of unequal size , but of the same height . This style is common in the Phocian cities , and in some parts of Boeotia and Argolis . To that ...
Strana 8
... building , as in every other art , there is a progress from the rudest state to perfection ; each separate style of masonry is the result or necessary consequence of that progress and gradual development in the art of building in any ...
... building , as in every other art , there is a progress from the rudest state to perfection ; each separate style of masonry is the result or necessary consequence of that progress and gradual development in the art of building in any ...
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Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-Roman Hodder Michael Westropp Úplné zobrazenie - 1878 |
Handbook of Archaeology: Egyptian-Greek-Etruscan-Roman Hodder Michael Westropp Obmedzený náhľad - 2021 |
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according alphabet ancient antiquity Apollo appears arch architecture artists Athenian 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 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 491 - 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 534 - 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 518 - 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 151 - 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 228 - ... 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 300 - 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 124 - ... 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 139 - 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 446 - 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...