The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 83
l of which were linked together by stone pas-sages accentuated at intervals by lions and Laernianmonsters. Windows Avere square, crossbarred with stone,and doors were triumphal arches topped with fan-tastic towers; while piers, tall, lithe, and straight,curved into capitals plumed with petrified… … JAVANESE ARCHITECTURE. 6r be acknowledged that the multiplicity of spiky towerssuggests a circus where it should suggest a temple,and advertisement rather than magnificence. JAVA. With Brahmanism and Buddhism Javanese archi-tecture began, and with Brahmanism and Buddhismit ended. For after the…
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