Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 100
regard to the scarcity of voids and narrow slop-ing doorways, the similarity in Egyptian buildings ofevery kind is very striking (Fig. 105). This absence ofvoids gives a dark and gloomy character to the buildings,when compared with the architecture of other countries.The horizontal element and… … 1^- 105.—Model of an FgAptian House. (P. .i C.) removing the horizontal appearance of the whole buildingWe give the ground plan, perspective view, and frontelevation of the great Temple of Luxor, as a typical illus-tration of an Egyptian temple from restorations byChipiez fFigs. 106, 107, and 108).…
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