The reliefs imbedded in the facades of St Mark's and in scores of houses about the city of Venice bear ample testimony to their greatness.
But Nicolo Lamberti, a Tuscan sculptor, worked on the decorations of the main archivolt of St Mark's, Florentine artists carved some of the best figures and capitals in the facades of the Ducal Palace, and wrought one of the finest tombs in S.
How much of the sculpture on the facades of the Ducal Palace was due to the Buoni it is difficult to say.
The result has been handed down in the beautiful and exact sculpture of the blocks and grecques of the facades of these palaces: work which could not have been performed in a more refractory stone.
History and tradition are stamped upon the facadesof the stone-built cities of Mexico--religion and aristocracy have left their mark.
As in the Yucatan structures, the lintels over the doorway-openings in the walls were of wood, and their decay has largely been the cause of the facades having fallen into ruins, in many places.
At first the facades were pierced by arched entrances, but at a later date a screen of columns formed an open front and the minarets were removed to the corners, no longer for the mu'azzin, but simply as architectural ornaments.
The scenes depicted, however, have frequently an architectural setting in which we find represented facades with pillars fashioned with distinctly Corinthian capitals.
And the earlier cave facades in western India indicate the identity of style and construction in the patterns from which both must have been copied.
The facades of the mosques became more ornamental, were often encrusted with marble, and usually adorned with rich and beautiful sculpture.
The facades of the abutting buildings are concave, and each affords lodgment for statues of a Season, a Spanish King and a female saint--who might be in a deal better company!
But in Palermo the people go much farther--they cover the facades of their very finest houses with linen which flaps in plain sight even during the fashionable corso on the broad avenue.
More remarkable than these monuments at Castel d'Asso are the rock-cut facades of Norchia, to the west of Viterbo, upon which are imitated the fronts of temples.
This last point is certainly incorrect; the worship of fire particularly called for altars, and these are represented upon the ornamented facades of the rock-cut tombs.
These remains are interesting, but elements seem to have crept in which could not originally have belonged to the Etruscan style, and the facades of Norchia can hence be deemed of but secondary importance in the study of the temple structures.
The second bodies of the western and southern facades also clash on account of the Renaissance elements, with their simple horizontal lines opposed to the vertical tendency of pure Gothic.
The Holy Door--a peculiarly placed apsidal portal on the eastern front--is built up of decorative elements saved from the northern and western facades when they were torn down.
The design was conformed to the Teutonic, or, as it is called, the Gothic architecture, seen in the facadesof churches built in that age.
Lighting kept subordinate to architecture; walks shaded to throw emphasis on brilliantly lighted facades and to bring out architecture, landscape and flowers.
Northern facadesof all four buildings, ornate doors in duplicate of Spanish plateresque doorways.
There remain the two facades which formed as it were arms, as has been told, to the straight limb of the cross.
Maria del Fiore, leaving two other facades on the cross-limb of the cross, one of which looked towards S.
Across the three high, pale-yellow facades of the main building the faded shutters were tightly closed.
While I was sketching a view of the facades of the middle three mausoleums, the head steward of Tashi-lunpo appeared, who supervises the provisioning, cleaning and lighting, etc.
At every new number the three high priests ring their bells, and the music continues without interruption, the discordant noise awakening a thundering echo from the stone facades of the narrow court.
From our point of view we can see several smaller gilded copper roofs in Chinese style, standing in front of the facades of the mausoleums and rising directly from flat roofs without any intervening course.
The facades of the theatre and of the hotels were outlined with thickly set little lamps, which beaded the arches of the bridges spanning the Tepl, and lighted the casements and portals of the shops.
The line of these comfortable dwellings, once so fashionable, was continually broken by the facades of shops; and March professed himself vulgarized by a want of style in the people they met in their walk to Twenty-third Street.
The facades of cathedrals, including ends of transepts as well as west fronts, are most striking, and often magnificently enriched.
The most remarkable of these brick buildings are the large dwelling-houses, with facades ornamented by brick tracery and panelling, to be found in Eastern Prussia, together with some town halls and similar buildings.
City of wharves and stores--city of tall facades of marble and iron!
Within there were six floors, instead of five, and four regular facades surrounded the vast square of the courtyard.
This part of Paris was crowded now with new buildings, between whose sculptured facades ran narrow lanes leading to haunts of squalid misery, which were cheek by jowl with splendor and wealth.
The gray facades rose tall and spectral; the windows were all shut.
Margherita, he painted many facades of palaces in chiaroscuro, with good design.
Three other facades he has painted in chiaroscuro, very large and covered with various scenes--one at S.
Argensola accompanied him, and they returned in a few minutes with the volume, leaving the doors open behind them, so as to make a stronger current of air among the hollows of the facades and the interior patio.
East and west facades were to be equidistant from the north porch and from the Caryatid Porch which would have served to break the monotony of the long rear wall.
Both facades were surmounted by epistyle, frieze and pediment.
It must have been the desire for close similarity between the two facades which prevented both Greek and Roman architect from placing four normal courses beneath the western windows.
In 1542 he employed the Architect Bartholome de Bustamente to design and construct the four facades of this enormous pile.
Riom holds a beautiful chapel like the Sainte Chapelle in Paris, and many stately mansions with facades of the renaissance period.
This stone is soft and easily cut and sawed so that many of the houses present pretentious facades to the highway and are nothing but dark holes behind.
As I wander through the streets of the town it is plain to be seen that it was a Court city, for there are many stately and interesting facades lining the way.
Interesting facades rise around us at every turn, but with the castle before us we do not pause until under the shadow of its great gateway.
Naves and transepts were not often failures; facades and even towers and fleches are invariably more or less successful because they are more or less balanced, mathematical, calculable products of reason and thought.
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