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... called a dome on pendentives . Or you may throw an arch or a system of concentric arches across the corners of the square to turn it into an octagon , or repeating into some other regular polygon on which an octagonal or other almost ...
... called a dome on pendentives . Or you may throw an arch or a system of concentric arches across the corners of the square to turn it into an octagon , or repeating into some other regular polygon on which an octagonal or other almost ...
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... called architecture , and you would have to be deeply committed to understanding pre - Hispanic America before you would care to visit it at all , save to view the magnificent sculpture , some of the best pieces of which are in the ...
... called architecture , and you would have to be deeply committed to understanding pre - Hispanic America before you would care to visit it at all , save to view the magnificent sculpture , some of the best pieces of which are in the ...
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... called triglyphs . The spaces between the triglyphs , which , when they were wooden beams , might have been empty , were called metopes and were sometimes decorated . Between the architrave and the Doric frieze was a smaller horizontal ...
... called triglyphs . The spaces between the triglyphs , which , when they were wooden beams , might have been empty , were called metopes and were sometimes decorated . Between the architrave and the Doric frieze was a smaller horizontal ...
Contents
Chapter Three ARCHITECTURAL TRAVEL WITH PARTICULAR | 35 |
Chapter Six THE ARCHITECTURE OF STONE | 151 |
English Features | 417 |
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The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That ... Jake Morrissey,J. P. Morrissey No preview available - 2005 |