For over 450 years a number of additions and restorations have afforded every facility for the skill of the architect, not always happily taken advantage of.
These two chapels, together with an elegant campanile, were entirely swept away in the restorations that took place under the direction of the architect James Wyatt.
Our collections contain many examples of ancient bowls, perfectly preserved, but if this were not the case the shapes are so simple that it would be an easy matter to make satisfactory restorations from fragments.
It is quite impossible to make satisfactory restorations of the vases or ollas from the small fragments recovered.
I have made two restorations of small examples belonging to this class, of which there are fragments showing the neck and upper part of the bodies.
Finding that in very few cases were there whole vessels representing the achievements of the ancient potter and decorator, I presented a number of restorationsfrom the better class of fragments.
Even three can generally be restored if the numbers preceding and those following the break are distinct, but such restorations should be cautiously made.
As the numbers attached to them are absolutely unreadable in Kingsborough and much obliterated in the photograph, I give here restorations for the benefit of those studying this codex.
It has been selected partly on this account, that the method of filling such breaks and making such restorationsmay be seen.
It is apparent from the illustrations given that in numeral series of the preceding type restorations can be made where not more than two numbers in succession are wanting.
It was near here that the great ice-floes broke over the wall; and a number of inscriptions westwards from this point mark the restorations of Theophilus.
The other temples were not forgotten; Amasis caused restorations to be undertaken at Thebes, especially at the great temple of Karnak: other temples were also restored and adorned with new buildings and statues.
The restorationsof Esarhaddon were no doubt again destroyed at the second capture of the city by Assurbanipal.
Standing as the old temple did near the veteres tabernae of the forum, and the newer restorations of them near the Basilica Julia, it was convenient for business transactions.
The restorations effected by Severus and the popular policy of his successors are commemorated in the Arch of Severus, the Portico of the Pantheon, and the huge ruins of the Baths of Caracalla.
Two restorationsare mentioned, the first executed by L.
It is built partly of yellow and red brickwork, and partly of opus reticulatum, and apparently belongs to the restorations and additions made by Hadrian to the city.
Two other conflagrations and restorations are recorded in the first half of the third century, one in the reign of Philippus in A.
But in the mass of fragments there are remains of the republican and of the imperial restorations of the many venerated buildings and altars which must have stood upon this corner of the hill.
The central part of the original building remains, and is easily distinguished from the subsequent travertine restorations by being constructed of Pentelic marble.
There are some modern restorations in the glass; and one of the windows--there is no difficulty in distinguishing it--is wholly modern.
The glass in the clerestory is fragmentary, and contains restorations by Peckett.
Many of the attempts to represent the facts by restorations on paper have been crude and vulgar enough.
The principal restorationsare the left hand and the right fore-arm and hand.
Waldeck's plate differs chiefly in representing the stucco ornaments in a more perfect state; but both are confessedly restorations to a certain extent.
This is the only part of the city of the Crusaders that has disappeared from view owing to the restorations of Solyman the Magnificent, who ascended the throne A.
All the doors and windows are pointed; but their original shape was slightly altered during the restorations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; especially in the case of the windows of the drum, whose outside moulding is now square.
The individual figures are not much altered, as the restorations of Thorwaldsen, even when incorrect, have now a prescriptive right of which it is not easy to deprive them.
Mainly it is a twelfth-century edifice throughout, in spite of the extensive restorations of the nineteenth century, which have eradicated many crudities that might better have been allowed to remain.
The seventeenth-century restorationsamounted practically to a reconstruction, as the Calvinists had partly destroyed the fabric.
The ravages inflicted by the ferocious hordes of the Constable Bourbon in 1527 had not yet been obliterated by the restorations and repairs undertaken by Pope Paul III.
Minute and most faithful descriptions of the restorations at Alnwick Castle are given by Mr. George Tate, F.
With these restorationsthe translation is as follows: "Success!
I give here transcripts and restorationsof such inscriptions as mention Jaina schools or titles.
What interest can exist in restorations to effect which so much must be cleared and scraped away that scarcely a trace of what was original can remain?
Traces of this Pope's restorationshave been found in other catacombs.
The line which separates the old foundations of Fabianus from the restorations of the age of peace is clearly visible.
A good many pieces of these figures have been found, sufficient to tempt several art-critics to make conjectural restorations of the pediment, one of which is now set up, I believe, in the museum at Berlin.
Of course, artistic restorations are often carried too far; a certain age may be arbitrarily assumed as the canon of perfection, and everything else destroyed to make way for it.
Aided by these restorations we hope to have given a clearer and more vivid idea of Chaldæan art than if we had confined ourselves to describing the scanty remains of their religious buildings.
All who have attempted restorations have copied the arrangement of these stairs and sloping roads from the ruins of Persepolis, where the steps, being cut in the rock itself, are still to be traced.
In order to vary the framework of our restorations and to show Assyrian architecture in as many aspects as possible, we have placed this temple within a fortified wall, like that of Khorsabad.
All the restorations that have been made are purely imaginary.
NOTES: [451] These restorations of the principal types of Chaldæan temples were exhibited by M.
In writing thus we allude chiefly to the restorations given by Mr. James Fergusson in The Palaces of Nineveh and Persepolis Restored (1 vol.
In Mr. Fergusson's restorations the column is freely used and the vault excluded, so that in many respects his work seems to us to be purely fanciful, and yet it is implicitly accepted by English writers to this day.
Until then we cannot give to our restorations of such buildings anything approaching the accuracy or completeness so easily attained when the great religious edifices of Greece or Egypt are in question.
Translations of several texts in which these restorations are spoken of are here given.
Everybody has made money in the last few years, and the fashionable wing of Goodloets to the left of the Poplars shows improvements and restorations that are both costly and sometimes amazing.
During the restorations that were begun in 1863, a further arrangement of iron bands, planned by Mr. Shields, the engineer, was introduced into the lantern story of the tower.
Little remains standing except a cella facing the Coliseum, and another in the cloisters of the adjoining convent (these, perhaps, being restorations by Maxentius, c.
The lower church was filled up with soil till 1864, when restorations were ordered here.
The three projecting rostra which we now see in front of the palace are restorations by Signor Rosa.
Grace in the attitudes and movements, with a peculiar harmony of form and colour, pervade the whole picture; but important restorations have unfortunately become necessary in several parts.
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