The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Restored in Conformity with the Recently Discovered Remains |
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126 Greek feet 14 feet 21 Greek inches 21 inches 63 feet 72 cubits 9 inches angle columns apres architects arrangement Artemisia ascertained assume Babylonian cubits basement beautiful Bryaxis Budrum building Caria cella certainly chamber chariot consequence couchant cymatium definite proportions descouuert difference difficulty Dilettante Society entablature equal exact dimension exactly excavations explained face Falkener fancy feet 6 inches feet English flanks fragments frieze front horses Hyginus inches Greek intercolumniation Knights Lacunaria least length Leochares Lion's head Lions lower diameter lower step marble Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Mausolus measure meta Monte Cavallo groups monument Museum Mylassa nearly Newton obtained Parthenon Pausanias pedestals peribolus peristyle plates Pliny Pliny's Natural History principal probably pteron Pullan pyramid steps Pythis quadriga ratio restoration roof satisfactory Scopas sculpture seems sepulchral side Sir Charles Fellows stairs statues stele stones sufficient suggested system of definite temples Tomb upper Vitruvius walls width wonders Woodcut
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Page 33 - The space batween the columns was lined with slabs and bands of marbles of different colours, ornamented with mouldings and sculptures, in harmony with the rest of the work, and inserted in the white ground of the wall, where battle-scenes were represented sculptured in relief.
Page 11 - ... plus bas, en espérance d'en treuver davantage : ce qui «leur succéda fort heureusement; car ils recongnurent en »peu d'heures, que de tant plus qu'on creusoit profond, » d'autant plus s'eslargissoit par le bas la fabrique , qui » leur fournit par après de pierres , non-seulement à faire "de la chaux, mais encor pour bastir.
Page 11 - ils treuverent après une porte fort basse, qui conduisoit »à une autre, comme antichambre, où il y avoit un se...
Page 8 - ... came to be reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world. It extends on the north and south sixty-three feet, but is shorter on the two fronts. The whole circumference is four hundred and eleven feet. It is raised in height twenty-five cubits, and is surrounded by thirty-six columns. This circuit is called the Pteron. The sculptures on the east side were by Scopas, on the north by Bryaxis, on the south by Timotheus, and on the west by Leochares. Before they had finished their work the queen...
Page 8 - From the north to the south was sixty-three feet, shorter in the front ; the whole circuit being four hundred and eleven feet ; it reaches in height...
Page 6 - ... statements of numbers and dimensions which bore the appearance of being derived from an authentic source. Hence the restoration of this celebrated building became one of those problems which has exercised the ingenuity of modern artists ever since the revival of a taste for classical architecture. ' What the squaring of the circle is to ' the young mathematician, or the perpetual motion to the young ' mechanician, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was to the young 'architect; and with the data at...
Page 12 - ... assez de temps, ils ne descouvrirent, la retraite » estant desjà sonnée. Le lendemain, après qu'ils y furent "retournés, ils treuverent la tombe descouverte , et la » terre semée tout autour de force petits morceaux de drap " d'or et paillettes de mesme métal : qui leur fit penser » que des corsaires , qui escumoyent alors le long de toute » ceste coste, ayans eu quelque vent de ce qui avoit esté »descouvert en ce lieu-là, y viendrent de nuict et estèrent » le couvercle du sépulcre...
Page 11 - Nous restons en plein domaine de l'incertitude, même, sinon surtout, après lui. une belle grande salle carree, embellie tout au tour de colonnes de marbre, auec leurs bases, chapitaux, architraues, frises et comices grauees et taillees en demy bosse ; l'entredeux des colonnes estait reuestu de lastres, listeaux ou plattes bandes de marbre de diuerses couleurs, ornees de moulures et sculptures conformes au reste de l'œuure, et rapportés proprement sur le fond blanc de la muraille, où ne se voyait...
Page 23 - ... minute of the normal column. Proceeding now to obtain the sum of the diameters on the front, we have — 4 columns, each 7.35 = 29.40 2 „ „ 7.4725 = 14.945 44.345 Leaving for the five intercolumnar spaces . . 45.6925 Breadth 90.0375 If the front be divided into five columniations, each extending from the centre of one column to the centre of the next, we have five segments and one diameter to compose the total breadth. Now, M. Blouet has given measures of four of the columniations on the...
Page 10 - As to your monument and the costly marble of which it is built, the inhabitants of Halicarnassus may certainly have reason to show it to strangers, and to think much of themselves for possessing so costly a...