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Architecture for general students (1874)

Horton, Caroline W · New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press · leaf 96

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them much morefreedom and variety in ar-rangement than had ever be-fore been possible; at the isame time securing greater Cross-Vauit. strength and firmness. Here two circular archescross each other diagonally, inclosing a quadraticspace, and dividing the vault into four calottes orcurved… … 82 Architecture. of Grecian architects. Indeed the Greek mindseems never to have found delight in vastness morethan in novelty, and this may be considered a ratherforcible argument in the favor of the ground takenby Winckelmann and others, that Grecian art wasthe outgrowth of the Grecian mind, and…

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