The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 38
eighbours. The most stupendous example of hypaethral archi-tecture in Africa was the great temple of Karnak. This temple was to the Egyptian architecturewhat St. Peters was to the Renaissance, namely,a comprehensive expression of all that was best inthe art of its own period. But the former was… … Fig. 8.—Egyptian capital. 16 EGYPT AND NUBIA. at various intervals through a cycle of over twcthousand years, during which time Egyptian, andespecially Theban art, reached its highest point oldevelopment. To Osirtasu 1 we owe the foundation of this col-lection of buildings, though little now…
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