Architectura numismatica; or, Architectural medals of classic antiquity: illustrated and explained by comparison with the monuments and the descriptions of ancient authors, and copious text. One hundred lithographs and woodcuts (1859)
Donaldson, Thomas Leverton, 1795-1885 · London, Day & son · leaf 435
tic execution is not Roman,but of modern art. There is however no just reasonto doubt, that it might have been a posthumous tributeof the filial piety of his successor, who might havethought it more just and due, and more consonantwith his own feelings, to have inscribed this medalwith the bust and… … CITY GATEWAY AT PiESTUM RESTORED BY T. L. D. IsiDORUS in his Origines (lib. xv. c. 2) explainstlie definitions of the several words connected with thewalls, gates and other parts of cities, and enters intoan elaborate discrimination of the meaning of theterms applied to towns, colonies, castles,…
Architecture, Ancient · Medals
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![An illustration from Architectura curiosa nova, exponens 1. Fundamenta hydragogica, indolemq[ue] aquæ, aëris interventu in altum levandæ. 2. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu siphonum genera. 3. Magnum amnissimorum fontium, machinarumq[ue] aquæductoriarum sumtu magno exstructarum, ac per Italiam, Britanniam, Germaniam &c. visendarum, numerum. 4. Specus artificiales sumtuosissimas, cum plerisq[ue] principum europæorum palatiis, hortis, aulis; nec non præcipuis monasteriis atq[ue] arcibus. 5. Cum auctario figurarum elegantissimarum, ad hortorum topiaria vario ductù dividenda, nec non conclavium laquearibus ac pavimentis segmentandis, itemq[ue] labyrinthis construendis, adhibendarum. Omnia 200 æri incisis... descripta (1664)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-architecturacuri00bock-508-292@270.webp)
