The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 163
y other remnants of thecountry. For, whether rock cut or standing isolated on theplain i Figs. 38 and 39), all their constructive and orna-mental features imitate a species of carpentry in stone,even to the panelling of doors, where the woodenoriginal is faithfully executed in the same… … I \o.—Bas-reliefs found at Nineveh, showing colonettes. CHAPTER VI: GREECE. INTRODUCTION. Greek architecture may be abstractly character-ized as pure, tranquil, solemn, and reserved; full ofexquisite balance and delicate poise, of refinement andsimplicity ; never feverish, unbridled, or…
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