ccording to the sizeof the picture and the habits of the painter. Egyptian Architecture.—The charac-teristics or elementary principles of Egyptianarchitecture are walls of great thickness, roofsgenerally of a single block of stone, whichreached from wall to wall, a multitude ofcolumns of various… … -^ and other travellers. In some instances theyare ornamented with foliage, in others theyresemble a vase, and again in others a bellreversed. In Egyptian architecture there isno frieze, nor, correctly speaking, any corniceor architrave, and their substitutes may becalled by either name, for…
Design · Decoration and ornament · Art
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