History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 474
mple. Peridome. That part of the periptere,which was left between the co-lumns and the walls. Periptere. A range of insulated co-lumns, distant from the walls,surrounding the exterior of atemple. Peripteral. Surrounded with a perip-tere. Perpendicular. When a straight linestands upon a horizontal… … Perpendicular Style. OF ARCHITECTURE. 401 Persian Architecture. The style used by the Persians. Persian Capital. Perspective, linear. Shows how the lineswhich define figure appear to the eyeof the spectator, according to the pointon which the eye is fixed, and the dis-tance of the objects. Pharos.…
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