... the column, and not ungraceful in itself, because it gives greater height and importance to the arches, which, being narrow, would else appear stumpy, depressed, and overloaded by the ornament around them.' Similar blocks or abaci occur in the remains... Carpentry and Building - Page 2861901Full view - About this book
| 1839 - 500 pages
...them.' Similar blocks or abaci occur in the remains of Frederick Barbarossa's palace at Gelnhausen, where small heads or masks are introduced immediately...degree the vertical lines produced by the columns. Among the other more prominent characteristics of this style, which are all that we can here touch... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 536 pages
...them.' Similar blocks or abaci occur in the remains of Frederick Barbarossa's palace at Gelnhausen, where small heads or masks are introduced immediately...degree the vertical lines produced by the columns. Among the other more prominent characteristics of this »tyle, which are all that we can here touch... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 502 pages
...them. Similar blocks or abaci occur in the remains of Frederick Barbarossa's palace at Gelnhauscn, where small heads or masks are introduced immediately...in some degree the vertical lines produced by the columna. Among the other more prominent characteristics of this style, which are all that we can here... | |
| Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 528 pages
...maintained itself as the prevalent style till the advent of the RENAISSANCE. as to fill up the same space there between the arches, and continue in some...degree the vertical lines produced by the columns. We shall here treat of Romanesque architecture generally : the peculiar forms it assumed in our own... | |
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