Lectures on Architecture Comprising de History of the Art from the Earliest Times to the Present Day Delivered at the Surrey and Russell Institutions London and the Philosophical Institutions at BirminghamPriestley and Weale, 1823 |
Common terms and phrases
abacus amphitheatre ancient antiquity appear aqueducts archi architect architrave Asiat Athens beautiful brick bridge building built called capital Cecrops celebrated church columns construction Corinthian Corinthian order cornice cupola Diam diameter Diod Doric order earliest edifices Egypt Egyptian elegant embellished Emperor entablature epoch erected Etruscan examples excavations feet high fillet fluted frieze Goguet Gothic Grecian Greece Greeks Hadrian height Herodotus Hindû honour hundred imitation immense inhabitants Inigo Jones invention Ionic Italian Jones king Lecture magnificent marble ment Minerva modern monuments mouldings nearly obelisks origin ornaments palace Palladio Parthenon Paul's period Phidias Pliny portico principal proportions pyramid reign Roman Roman architecture Rome round ruins says sculpture shaft specimens splendid splendour statues stone Stonehenge struction structure stupendous style of architecture Tacitus taste temple of Jupiter Theatre of Marcellus theatres Thebes tion tower triglyphs triumphal arches ture Tuscan Vitruvius volutes walls Wren