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Title: A short history of art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: De Forest, Julia B. d. 1910 Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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RUINS OF THE PALACE OF PERSEPOLISCompare Platform ai)d Approaches with Those at Khorsabad being at right angles to the buildings they approach, but allbeing double, apparently to permit of processions passing thethrone, situated in the porches at their summit; without in-,terruption, and without altering the line of march. There are five important and distinct buildings upon theplatform; four on the central terrace. These buildings are the palaces of Darius, Xerxes, andArtaxerxes III., the Hall of Audience, and the EasternEdifice. PERSIAN ART 35 Type of Building The type of all the buildings is very much the same. Asquare hall with a roof supported by four, sixteen, thirty-six,or a hundred pillars, is surrounded by smaller rooms or cor-ridors and porticos. The stairs that lead up to the palaceof Xerxes are decorated with bas-reliefs. The doors are
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DETAILS OF PERSIAN ARCHITECTURE Marble Columns—the Bases and Shafts Reflecting Egyptian and Greek-Ionic Influences; the Capitals Persian and Designed to Supportthe Timber-beams of the Roof guarded by huge bulls strikingly like those of Assyria. Itis interesting to notice that at Persepolis we have several ex-amples of those buildings mentioned in the Bible as gates.These were not the entrance to a city, but buildings wherebusiness was transacted. In some such gate Abrahambought his field, and Mordecai sat at Susa. The gate attached to the palace of Xerxes has two public entrancesguarded by bulls, and one entrance leading to the palace.The roof is supported by four columns. 36 A SHORT HISTORY OF ART The palace of Darius has been restored by Mr. Fergussonfrom the tomb known as that of Darius at Naksh-i-Rustam. This tomb, he says, is an exact reproduction, not onlyof the architectural features of the palace, but on the samescale, and in every respect so similar, that it seems impos-sib

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