Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, Volume 2081968 - Great Britain |
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... buildings . Perhaps the sculpture on the west front of the Cathedral of Orvieto , the work of the fifteenth century , is one of the finest series of sculptures ever executed for the external decoration of a building , and this building ...
... buildings . Perhaps the sculpture on the west front of the Cathedral of Orvieto , the work of the fifteenth century , is one of the finest series of sculptures ever executed for the external decoration of a building , and this building ...
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... building of which there is no recorded history at all . I confess that , had I known nothing of the his- tory , I should not have attributed the building to the year 1060. Knowing the history , it seems to me that the more rational ...
... building of which there is no recorded history at all . I confess that , had I known nothing of the his- tory , I should not have attributed the building to the year 1060. Knowing the history , it seems to me that the more rational ...
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... building . You cannot do this with a Classic design . There you must have pillars , capitals , friezes , cornices , door - cases , window - cases . Cut them out , and you have no design , no architecture left at all . A Gothic building ...
... building . You cannot do this with a Classic design . There you must have pillars , capitals , friezes , cornices , door - cases , window - cases . Cut them out , and you have no design , no architecture left at all . A Gothic building ...
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Literature in the Cabinet | 14 |
The National Style and its Critics | 21 |
Heraldry in History Poetry and Romance | 28 |
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