Pyl'ades at length yielded to Orestes, and consented to take the letter.
The Ore'ades were mountain nymphs, and others presided over groves and even single trees.
It was the custom at Tauris, to sacrifice all strangers at the altar of Diana; Orestes and Pyl'ades were accordingly seized on their arrival, and carried as victims to the temple.
Pyl'ades married Electra, the sister of his friend.
The process of excavation extended through ten centuries from the time of Asoka; and the interiors as well as the façades were highly ornamented with sculptures.
The Buddhist temples were generally excavated out of the solid rock, and only the façades were ornamented.
To Phoebus: A Prayer in Sickness HVC ades et tenerae morbos expelle puellae, huc ades, intonsa Phoebe superbe coma.
All the naus are built with their façades to the south or south-east, with the exception of that of Benigaus Nou, the inner end of which is cut in the rock, while the outer part is built up of blocks as usual.
The façades of these temples were, however, as richly decorated and as monumental in their way as those of the most sumptuous buildings in Thebes.
But no attempt was made to cut architectural façades in the cliffs like those at Beni-Hassan; not more than one or two sepulchres have yet been discovered which have façades made up of those columns which have been called protodoric.
The prototype of these façades is the Theban pylon.
These façades are cut into the cliff-like sides of the hills of the Arab Chain, about half-way up their total height.
There, too, many sepulchral façades rise one above another upon the abrupt slope of a hill into which the graves are sunk.
It may at once be objected to the new façade that, with all its magnificence, it is quite out of harmony with the style adopted in the four façades which form the admirable quadrangle of the Louvre.
In carrying out his work Mansard made eight façades instead of the four first contemplated, and in the middle of the octagon he placed an equestrian statue of Louis XIV.
The lateral façades on the exterior are monotonous; the cupola within is a reversed funnel of a peculiar and disagreeable form.
Some of the transept façades also had imposing portals.
The whole forms one of the most imposing façades in existence; but it is a mere decoration, having no practical relation to the building behind it.
Façades were flat and unbroken, depending mainly for effect upon the distribution and adornment of the openings, and the design of doorways, courtyards and cornices.
Their façades are adorned with colossal seated figures of the builder; the smaller has also two effigies of Nefert-Ari, his consort.
They produced nothing to rival the majestic façades of Notre Dame, Amiens, or Reims, and their portals are almost ridiculously small.
Everywhere else the vices of the period appear in these churches, especially in their façades and internal decoration.
The façades were mere frontispieces with a single broad gable, the three aisles of the church being merely suggested by flat or round pilasters dividing the front (Fig 91).
It shows the new influences in its horizontal lines and flat, unbroken façades of brick and stone, rather than in its architectural details (Fig.
The transept façades and main front allowed greater scope for invention and fancy, but even here the interior membering gave the key to the composition.
In most French church façades the porches were the most striking features, with their deep shadows and sculptured arches.
The porticos and façades present double and triple rows of columns, but seldom are they found on the sides or around the temples, as at Damascus and Tadmor.
He had a companion in another Calabrian (whose name I do not know), who worked for a long time in Rome with Giovanni da Udine and executed many works by himself in that city, particularly façades in chiaroscuro.
The disposition will best be understood from the ground-plans drawn by the young Egyptian officers: their sketches of the façades are too careless and incorrect for use; but the want is supplied by the photographs of M.
Possibly the façades may once have been stuccoed and coloured; now they show the bare and pebble-banded sandstone.
And the ancient chestnut trees nodded assent, and with the shadows of their outspread fingers stroked the frightened façades to calm them.
The arcading in both these façades is most beautiful and from some points, where the roof-line can be seen cutting the sky, they look like two towers surmounted by an elegant balustrade.
This is broken by many pinnacles, some of which are spiral, with others on the façades and finishing the supports of the flying buttresses, give the exterior a resemblance to a forest of small spires.
All beautiful within, the churches of Florence are singularly poor in those rich façades which give such scope to the sculptor and architect, conferring, as at Pisa, distinction on a whole town.
The churches of the Carmine, Santo Spirito and San Lorenzo are without façades at all, presenting graceless and unfinished masonry in place of what was intended by their founders.
Elsewhere there are late and florid façades alien to the spirit of the main building, while it has been left to our own generation to complete Santa Croce and the Cathedral.
The Hôtel de Ville had been built in the dawn of the classic Renaissance, and its fine façades retained much of the Gothic spirit.
And yet only thirty years separated the façades of uncle and nephew.
At both west and north façades was an image of St. Nicaise, the eleventh bishop of Rheims, who had been martyred as he knelt by his cathedral door.
Not only was the west frontispiece of Rheims unique, but its transept façades would have distinguished any cathedral.
Pont l'Abbé possesses one of the best Romanesque façades in France.
Jean de l'Espine, a local master of whom Angers is proud, designed the curious central tower, and two sculptors who had worked on groups at Solesmes made the façades eight warrior images which have been restored.
As late as 1800, a project was abroad to disencumber the soil of France of "these overcharged façades with their multitude of indecent and ridiculous figures.
The tholos in these façades is a Hellenistic motive, though it is known to us at an early period only from wall paintings and from literary sources.
Hellenistic façade in two orders[90] to the stucco façades of Ctesiphon and Ukhaiḍir.
The same insistence upon horizontality is to be observed in the façades of Ctesiphon and Ukhaiḍir; but the effect is produced in a different manner.
In the second-century façades at Petra, such as the Corinthian tomb and the Khazneh, this tendency reaches full expression.
It was present in the two main façades of the audience chambers at Balkuwârâ.
Strip a chapel of the fifteenth century of ornamental adjuncts, and an uninteresting shell is left: what, for instance, would the façades of the Certosa and the Cappella Colleoni be without their sculptured and inlaid marbles?
In the façades of the palace of Darius at Persepolis two square pilasters of porphyry are seen, so perfectly preserved that in the upper part they still have holes, cut to receive the ends of the entablature.
The discoveries of Loftus and Taylor show us how the façades and the rooms of the Chaldæan palaces were decorated.
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