Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 230
ed her to import stonefrom abroad ; and the grace and variety of the orders remainedunknown to her builders. Like Egypt, Chaldsea gave lessons butreceived none. The forms of her art are to be explained by theinborn characteristics of her people and the natural conditionsamong which they found… … !\ I ,^ Fig. 74.—Assyrian capital, in perspective ; compiled iVum I lace. characterized it had it arisen naturally from the demands of construction.^ We only possess one column, or rather one fragment of a column, from Assyria, and that was found by M. Place at Khorsabad (Fig. 74). It is a block of…
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