A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 581
country. Inter-nally, their usual form is that of a square courtyard, surrounded by arange of arcades generally two stories in height, each arch openinginto a small square cell at the back. Externally they present only ahigh plain wall, surmounted by battlements and flanked by towers ateach angle,… … 993. Palace at Ispahan. (From Nineveh and Persepolis Restored.) great beauty of design combined with considerable elaboration ofdetail. It is not, however, only in these larger monuments that the Persiansshow an appreciation of the beautiful and a power of expressing it.As in most Eastern nations,…
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