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Title: Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing ..
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Architecture Architectural drawing
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., Printed by F. J. Drake & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 59. WINGED-BULL FROM NIMROUD. EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE 137 slabs of the casing, and painted in the most brilliantcolors. Over these sculptures were painted other royalacts of the king surrounded by his eunuchs and warriors,and these representations were in their turn surroundedby an ornamental border, in which winged-bulls andmonstrous beasts, as well as the sacred tree, principallyfigured (Fig. 60). At the top of the walls the roof was probably con-structed of wooden beams, divided into coffers bywainscoting, which were painted with flowers or ani-mals, or inlaid with ivory. Graceful borders and cor-ner-pieces surrounded each division. The brilliancy ofthe chambers was increased by employing rare woodsand coatings of metals, especially gilding.
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SCULPTURED ORNAMENTAL BORDER FROM THERUINS CF NINEVEH. All the buildings that have hitherto been discoveredin Assyria have precisely the same character, so that inall probability the palaces and temples were united inone building: for the deeds of the king and nation aretherein associated with the symbols of religion and thestatues of the gods. It may be accepted as a generalprinciple that it was not the temple, or the buildingdestined for worship, which formed in Babylonian, As-syrian, and the Persian architecture which is to be de- 138 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE scribed hereafter, the most important and distinctiveelement of the style, as it did in the case of other culti-vated races; but rather that it was the palace of theirdespots which enjoyed a paramount importance in theminds of those races. The building destined for worshipwas only to be distinguished by a pyramidal terrace-like substructure, whilst the structure of the templeitself was by no means in accordance with the co

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