Examples of heraldry in conjunction with buildings, monuments, and architectural features generally, have also been given, and its application to the minor arts has not been overlooked.
Probably to enable him to indulge his love of architectural construction, the boy besought his father to let him be a joiner; and he was accordingly put apprentice to a neighbouring village carpenter.
He also obtained employment as a modeller of architectural designs; and made drawings for a work begun by an Edinburgh engraver, after the plan of Britton's 'Cathedral Antiquities.
He thus acquired a familiarity with work, and cultivated an architectural taste, to which the diversity of the mechanical employment about a large operatic establishment is peculiarly favourable.
That the Egyptians who inhabited the level areas of the alluvial Nile appreciated the psychological effect of such terraced elevation is shown by the architectural arrangement of their temples.
In order that these aims may be fully understood, I shall attempt to explain both the architectural plan of this new prison and the reasons for selecting a sloping rather than a level topographical site.
All ostentation has been avoided and architectural effect has been sought in the general grouping and proportions rather than in the ornamentation; nevertheless, the psychology of attractive buildings has not been overlooked.
There were some plates of it in the architectural journals.
Acquaintances reported him at architectural exhibits and at book-auctions--occasions neither numerous nor important.
The Museum library, with hundreds of architectural students in and out, had few volumes in architecture, or none.
In the low district assigned to him, a mosque rears its unpretending head, simple in its aspect, but still distinguished by its beauty and architectural ornaments.
They display long fronts, with coarse balconies of wood, having little of architectural beauty to recommend them.
The Christian church of Saint Euphemia, at Chalcedon, in which the grand council had been held, was celebrated for its size andarchitectural ornaments.
It is built of layers of Roman brick and masses of marble; and everywhere abounds in the fragments of architectural ornaments, which seem to have been drawn away from other edifices to adorn it.
It is a city which probably never had sixty thousand inhabitants, and yet here are four of the most magnificent architectural monuments in Europe.
This prompt yet wise intervention, actuated by a public spirit not only strong but intelligent, is seen, in various other parts of the empire, in the preservation and restoration of its architectural glories.
They also had their way, more so than in any other Spanish city, and their tastes helped to weld together that incongruous mass of architectural styles which is Toledo's alone of all cities.
From an historical and architectural point of view, Osma, the rival city on the Duero River, is much more important than Soria.
The whole is a marvel of simple architectural resource within the narrow limits of the round-arched style.
With their aid he builtarchitectural wonders, but hybrid marvels, complex, grand, luxurious, and magnificent.
The hollow is a peculiar and daring medley of architectural elegance and sculptural bizarrerie and vice versa.
Perhaps the real reason for these architectural mishaps is not so much the fault of the architects and artists as that of the chapter, and of the flock which could not help satisfactorily toward the erection of a worthy cathedral.
The world-spread fame acquired by Alcala in the fifteenth century was due to the patronage of Cardinal Cisneros, who built the university, at one time one of the most celebrated in Europe, and to-day a mere skeleton of architectural beauty.
From an architectural point of view, the royal palace, majestic and imposing, though decidedly poor in style, is about the only edifice that can be admired.
The interior of the Roman cruciform building, though by no means one of the largest, is, as regards its architectural disposition, one of the most imposing Gothic interiors in Spain.
Taken all in all, they are really the only architectural attractions to be discovered in the city to-day.
The church at Norrey, built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, is a very model of architectural perfection and simplicity, the tall spire is something in the style of the marvellous St Pierre in Caen itself.
Its heights and hollows are studded with architectural remains, proud and stern chateaux, now for the most part occupied as farmhouses; its annals are as full of skirmishes and romantic stories as our own border country.
His figures also were elegant, and these he was sometimes employed to introduce in the landscapes and architectural pieces of other artists.
He treats his subject copiously, with dignity, and with perfect nature: he imparts grandeur to it by his architectural views, and elegance by introducing the usages of antiquity.
Pure architectural and ornamental painting in a good taste are, however, distinct arts; and to attain excellence in them requires all the faculties of man.
As learned in perspective as his brother was in figures, his style was so similar, that no architectural painter was so well suited to accompany the figures of the other.
It is a large and unquestionably striking structure, and one that gives opportunity for very radical difference of opinion as to its architectural beauty.
It does not seem likely that, even in the important streets, the houses of the rich made much architectural show on the outside.
The eye was satisfied with the rich polychromatic decoration, and did not require it to be supplemented by architectural ornament.
At Thebes alone can the architectural genius of the Egyptians be judged.
The latter gives no measurements either of height or length, and under such circumstances any attempt to restore the building, from an architectural point of view would be futile.
We must close our eyes for a moment and reconstruct this combination of architectural and sculpturesque lines.
In these days when we wish to represent an architectural building exhaustively, we do it in geometrical fashion, giving plans, elevations, and sections.
Their attention was mainly directed to thearchitectural monuments of Lower Egypt; but little now remains of the buildings which drew so much praise from the Greek travellers.
We have therefore passed in review the most important architectural creations of a people who were the first to display a real taste and feeling for art.
But the same form is to be found in the architectural shapes preserved by the paintings of the ancient empire (Fig.
The royal pavilion at Medinet-Abou is the only building in Egypt which has preserved for us those architectural features which we call windows.
The ordinary golfer, whose head is not too full of modern architectural ideas, would jump with joy on first beholding Prestwick.
Réaumur gave to the animalcules which construct the coral the name of Polyps, and Coral to the product itself, for such he considered the architectural product of the polyps.
Building Construction,= the Elements of, and Architectural Drawing, with 130 Illustrations, drawn on Wood by the Author.
The architectural feature which has attracted most attention is the pyramid, which to some writers is of itself conclusive proof of an Egyptian origin.
He next goes on to prove "almost to demonstration that Grecian artists were authors of the sculpture, Tyrians the architects of the entire edifices,--while those of Egypt were authors of the architectural bases.
Yet the differences between the Quiche-Cakchiquel structures and the older architectural remains of the Maya empire, indicate a new era of Maya culture, originated not improbably by the introduction of foreign elements.
I can't say it sounds better than thearchitectural show," she said, pulling out her hat-pins.
Kendall Major's missed it, I tell you, going off to that poky architectural show," she declared to Miss Jinny.
The necessity of painting the whole façade, in order to mask the nature of the material, gives the effect of enormous architecturaldecorations seen in open air.
It symbolizes that state of mind too earnest for mere polish, too deeply excited for laws of exact proportions and architectural refinement.
The Albert-Dürer-Haus Society has done admirable work in restoring and preserving the house in its original state with the aid of Professor Wanderer's architectural and antiquarian skill.
The description, for instance, of Egdon Heath, at the beginning of the Return of the Native, has a dusky architectural grandeur that is like the Portico of an Egyptian Temple.
With clear-cut, architectural volition it builds up its own Byzantium, out of the quarried debris of all the centuries.
The iron plough of his implacable style drives pitilessly through the soft flesh of the earth until it reaches the architectural sub-structure.
That is what architectural and sanitary art has done for children.
It seems conscious of its humiliation, and wears an air of architectural dejection that is quite touching.
For the truth is that these architectural backgrounds and settings remained, so long as his fancy had any free field for disporting itself, an integral part of his conception.
With these fine portraits, painted as if united by the same architectural background, Holbein began a friendship of many years.
The whole work must once have been a glorious creation, with its rich colours, its beautiful architectural forms, and its mingling of purest imagination with realism.
His architectural settings, too, tended to greater simplicity in his later years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "architectural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: architectural; formal; housing; morphological; organic; structural
