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Manual of Classical Literature - Page 142
by Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1841 - 753 pages
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 1

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829 - 638 pages
...— V. Greco- Gothic style. After the dismemberment of the Roman em-- pire, the arts degenerated no far, that a custom became prevalent of erecting new...building, which continued to be imitated, especially hi Italy, during the dark ages. It consisted of Grecian and Roman details, combined under new forms,...
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Elements of Technology: Taken Chiefly from a Course of Lectures Delivered at ...

Jacob Bigelow - Industrial arts - 1831 - 596 pages
...still extant. GRECO-GOTHIC STYLE. After the dismemberment of the Roman empire, the arts degenerated so far, that a custom became prevalent of erecting new...style of building, which continued to be imitated, es* To the regular duplicature of columns introduced in the colonnade of the Louvre, in Paris, Perrault...
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The Popular Encyclopedia;: pt. 1: Sketch of the progress of physical science ...

Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1836 - 496 pages
...empire, the arts degenerated so far, tluit a custom became prevalent of erecting new buildings with tlie fragments of old ones, which were dilapidated and...building, which continued to be imitated, especially in lUily, during the dark ages. It consisted of Grecian аЫ Roman details, combined under new forms,...
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The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 1

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1841 - 956 pages
...V. Greco- Gothic »tyle. After the dismemberment of the Roman empire, the arts degenerated so rar, that a custom became prevalent of erecting new buildings...Grecian and Roman details, combined under new forms, aud pi|,d up into structures wholly unlike the antique oripnak Hence the names Greco-Gothic and Rommirsmi,...
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The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. by A. Whitelaw ...

Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 924 pages
...&c. — V. Greco-Gothic style. After the dismemberment of the Roman empire, the arts degenerated so far, that a custom became prevalent of erecting new...Grecian and Roman details, combined under new forms, and piinl up into structures wholly unlike the antique original-. Hence the names Greco-Gothic and Нотаяыанг...
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General View of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical

Art - 1851 - 490 pages
...Romanesque style. — Byzantine style. AFTER the dismemberment of the Roman empire, the arts degenerated so far, that a custom became prevalent of erecting new buildings with the fragments of old ones. This gave rise to an irregular style"of building, which continued to be imitated, especially in Italy...
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Chambers's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopedia, Volume 2

William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...arts degenerated so far that a custom became prevalent of erecting new Fig. 14. buildings with tile fragments of old ones, which were dilapidated and...imitated, especially in Italy, during the dark ages. It cons' sted of Grecian and Roman details, combined under new forms, and piled up into structures wholly...
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Manual of Classical Literature

Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art - 1854 - 766 pages
...of architecture which grew up after the dismemberment of the Roman Empire. " The arts degenerated so far, that a custom became prevalent of erecting new...dilapidated and torn down for the purpose. This gave rise ю an irregular style of building, which continued to be imitated, especially in Italy, during the...
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Manual of Classical Literature

Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art - 1855 - 772 pages
...the fragments of old ones, which were dilapidated and torn down for the purpose. This gave rise 10 an irregular style of building, which continued to be imitated, especially in Italy, during tbe dark agea. It consisted of Grecian and Roman details, combined under new forms, and pik-d up into...
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A General View of the Fine Arts: Critical and Historical, with an Introduction

Daniel Huntington - Art - 1838 - 492 pages
...style. — Byzantine style. i ItqU. AFTER the dismemberment of the Roman empire, the arts degenerated so far, that a custom became prevalent of erecting new buildings with the fragments of old ones. This gave rise to an irregular style of building, which continued to be imitated, especially in Italy...
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