The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 31
ithmasonry to guard against thieves and desecrators. However, architectural interest centres chiefly inthe chamber or temple, for within, the walls werebrilliantly painted with allegorical pictures, and with-out, at the entrance, stood two square piers, oftencapped with a quadrangular slab or… … Fig. 4.—Tomb at Beni-Hassan. (Fig. 4) the fluted columns and moulded lintel calledProto-Doric, from which the Greek Doric order*was eventually evolved. * Order i- a comprehensive term in classieal architecture for acolumn, pedestal, and entablature. THE THEBAN PERIOD. CHARACTERISTICS. g From the…
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