An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age, Their Architectural Disposition and Enrichments;: And on the Remains of the Roman Domestic Edifices Discovered in Great BritainLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833 - 179 sidor |
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... Thebes . Arch . Dict . See also Vitruvius , lib . v . cap . 7. Very noble fresco paintings adorn the ceilings and walls of most of the Roman palaces of modern date . C space in the centre of the roof was left open 17.
... Thebes . Arch . Dict . See also Vitruvius , lib . v . cap . 7. Very noble fresco paintings adorn the ceilings and walls of most of the Roman palaces of modern date . C space in the centre of the roof was left open 17.
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... roof was left open to the sky , called the Impluvium , through which the rain - water fell into the Compluvium , a square basin in the middle of the court , whence it flowed into cisterns for domestic use . Several of these reservoirs ...
... roof was left open to the sky , called the Impluvium , through which the rain - water fell into the Compluvium , a square basin in the middle of the court , whence it flowed into cisterns for domestic use . Several of these reservoirs ...
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... roof . This primitive form of Atrium could only be adopted in a small house ; for when the Cavædium was increased in its dimensions , the beams having too great a length would not bear the weight of the roof . The second kind of Atrium ...
... roof . This primitive form of Atrium could only be adopted in a small house ; for when the Cavædium was increased in its dimensions , the beams having too great a length would not bear the weight of the roof . The second kind of Atrium ...
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... roof , which , instead of being inclined towards the Impluvium in the middle of the court , conveyed the water outside the Cavædium . The fifth , called Testudine , having no open space at the top like the others , could only be ...
... roof , which , instead of being inclined towards the Impluvium in the middle of the court , conveyed the water outside the Cavædium . The fifth , called Testudine , having no open space at the top like the others , could only be ...
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... roof which concealed the frame - work was also painted ; a practice , says Pliny , introduced by Pausias of Sicyon . Ceilings formed in com- 1 A remarkable modern instance of this style of painting was executed by J. F. De Vries , at ...
... roof which concealed the frame - work was also painted ; a practice , says Pliny , introduced by Pausias of Sicyon . Ceilings formed in com- 1 A remarkable modern instance of this style of painting was executed by J. F. De Vries , at ...
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An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age: Their Architectural ... Thomas Moule Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1833 |
An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age, Their Architectural ... Thomas Moule Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1833 |
An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age, Their Architectural ... Thomas Moule Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1833 |
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adorned amongst ancient antiquary Antiquities apartments appears Arbuthnot's Tables architect architecture Atrium Augustus Badham's Translation basin Baths of Titus beautiful bronze buildings Cæsar called Cavædium ceiling celebrated centre chap Cicero Cœna Colesbourn colonnade colours columns contained Corinthian Corinthian order cornice couches court covered curious decoration derived dining-room Diocletian discovered domestic door edifice elegance embellishment Emperor employed English engraved enriched entablature epist erected Essay Exhedra feast feet floor fresco garden gilded Greece Greek ground Hall Herculaneum Hibernaculum Horace hypocaust Italy Julius Cæsar Juvenal kind light luxury magnificence marble Mazois modern mosaic pavement Museum ornaments painted palace papyrus Peristyle placed plate Pliny Pliny's Natural History porticos reign remains Roman House Roman mansion Roman villa roof Ruines de Pompeii says Scaurus seat statues style Sudatorium supposed Tablinum taste temple Thalamus Thermæ triclinium vases vessels Vitruvius walls whence
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Sida 115 - The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basins through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper coin, the daily enjoyment of a scene of pomp and luxury which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia.
Sida 123 - What ancient bards in hall and bower have told, Attemper'd to the lyre, your voice employ; Such the pleas'd ear will drink with silent joy. But oh! forbear that dear disastrous name, To sorrow sacred, and secure of fame : My bleeding bosom sickens at the sound, And every piercing note inflicts a wound.
Sida 179 - Nature hath furnished one part of the Earth, and man another. The treasures of time lie high, in Urnes, Coynes, and Monuments, scarce below the roots of some vegetables. Time hath endlesse rarities, and shows of all varieties ; which reveals old things in heaven, makes new discoveries in earth, and even earth itself a discovery. That great Antiquity America lay buried for a thousand years ; and a large part of the earth is still in the Urne unto us.
Sida 59 - Socrates, as we learn from Xenophon, who has introduced him in a dialogue, discoursing with that philosopher. He was one of the most excellent painters of his time. Pliny tells us, that it was he who first gave symmetry and just proportions in the art; that he also was the first who knew how to express the truth of character, and the different airs of the face; that he found out a beautiful disposition of the hair, and heightened the grace of the visage.
Sida 113 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Sida 148 - THE history of architecture, like that of other arts, marks out the progression of manners. Among the Dorians it carried with it the austerity of their national character, which displayed itself in their language and music. The lonians added to its original simplicity an elegance which has excited the universal admiration of posterity. The .Corinthians, a rich and luxurious people, not contented with former improvements, extended the art to the very verge of vicious refinement ; and thus (so connected...
Sida 23 - it was here that numbers assembled daily to pay their respects to their patron, to consult the legislator, to attract the notice of the statesman, or to derive importance in the eyes of the public from an apparent intimacy with a man in power.
Sida 58 - ... taste are ornaments, not substitutes of form, expression, and character, and, when they usurp that title, degenerate into splendid faults. Such were the principles on which Apelles formed his Venus, or, rather, the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists ; whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, while imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of the tints.
Sida 10 - Tiburtiue villas consists in the names which they bear. These rustic and grand substructions, however, crown the hill so admirably, that , whatever they originally were , they now appear the master object of Tivoli, and prove how happily the ancient architects consulted the elevation of site and the point of view.
Sida 145 - The lonique Order doth represent a kinde of Feminine slendernesse, yet saith Vitruvius, not like a light Housewife, but in a decent dressing, hath much of the Matrone.