 After her interment, her nurse, collecting in a basket those articles to which she had shewn a partiality when alive, carried them to her tomb, and placed a tile on the basket for the longer preservation of its contents. The basket was accidentally placed...  First Principles of Symmetrical Beauty - Page 1by David Ramsay Hay - 1846 - 88 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir William Chambers, Joseph Gwilt - Architecture - 1825 - 378 pages
...disorder : after her interment, her nurse collecting in a basket those articles to which she had shewn a partiality when alive, carried them to her tomb,...tile, and thus formed volutes at the extremities. — Callimachus, who for his great ingenuity and taste in sculpture was called by the Athenians Kararexvos,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Building - 1825 - 342 pages
...the root of an acanthus plant, whiph, pressed by the weight, shot forth towards spring in stems of large foliage, and, in the course of its growth, reached...tile, and thus formed volutes at the extremities. Callimachus, who Corinthian Order. for his great ingenuity and taste in sculpture was called, by the... | |
 | 1837 - 486 pages
...the root of an acanthus plant, which, pressed by the weight, shot forth towards spring in steins of large foliage, and in the course of its growth reached...tile, and thus formed volutes at the extremities. Callimachus, who for his great ingenuity and taste in sculpture was called by the Athenians «srartxsot,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1116 pages
...which, pressed by the weight, shot forth towards spring in stems of large foliage, and in the ourse of its growth reached the angles of the tile, and thus formed volutes at the extremities. Callimachus, who for his great ingenuity and taste in culpture was called by the Athenians rararexvoc,... | |
 | 1837 - 800 pages
...th* root of an acanthus plant, which, pressed by the weight, shot forth towards spring in stems of large foliage, and in the course of its growth reached...the angles of the tile, and thus formed volutes at its extremities. Callimachus, who for his great ingenuity and taste in sculpture, was called by the... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - Architects - 1842 - 1114 pages
...carried them to her tomb, and placed a tile on the basket, for the longer preservation of its consents. The basket was accidentally placed on the root of...tile, and thus formed volutes at the extremities. Callimachus, who, for his great ingenuity and taste in sculpture, was called by the Athenians катагсхро?,... | |
 | Edward Shaw - Architecture - 1843 - 216 pages
...the root of an acanthus plant, which, pressed by the weight, shot forth, towards spring, in stems of large foliage, and, in the course of its growth, reached...tile, and thus formed volutes at the extremities. Callimachus, who, for his great ingenuity and taste in sculpture, was called, by the Athenians, xarem^vog,... | |
 | 1843 - 822 pages
...plant, which, pressed by the weight, shot forth, towards spring, its stems and large foliage; and in course of its growth reached the angles of the tile, and thus formed volutes at the extremities. Callimachus, who for his great ingenuity and taste, was called by the Athenians Кататсх"о^... | |
 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1850 - 452 pages
...articles to which she had shown a partiality when alive, carried them to. her tomb, and placed a tile in the basket for the longer preservation of its contents....growth reached the angles of the tile, and thus formed the volutes at the extremities. Callimachus, happening at this time to pass by the tomb, observed the... | |
 | Vitruvius Pollio - Architecture - 1860 - 486 pages
...disorder. After her interment, her nurse, collecting in a basket those articles to which she had shewn a partiality when alive, carried them to her tomb,...tile, and thus formed volutes at the extremities. Callimachus, who, for his great ingenuity and taste was called by the Athenians Catatechnos, happening... | |
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