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Title: Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Walton, William, 1843-1915 Champier, Victor, b. 1851 Saglio, André, b. 1869 Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)
Subjects: Art
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie & Son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ROYAL PAVILION OF SWEDEN, IN THE RUE DES NATIONS, QUAI DORSAY. 66 ARCHITECTURE menacing,—the wildest fliglits of our European fancy collapse into timidityand puerility. The most extravagant mediaeval visions of fiends of thepit are but skimmed milk in comparison with the multitude of thesedivinities, celestial and infernal, gods, goddesses, and demons. The threebuildings are careful reproductions of the most remarkable specimenof Hindu architecture in the island of Java, the temple of Djandi-Sara,or Chaudri-Sari, and two, of very ornate native habitations of the highplateau of Padang, in the island of Sumatra. The temple, now presentedfor the first time in Europe, rises upon two terraces or flat roofs placedone above the other; the first formed by two smaller temples repro-duced from the ruins of Prambanan, or Prembanam, in Java; the base-ment walls of the second terrace are covered with mouldings fromthe most extraordinary bas-reliefs of the celebrated temple of Bourou-boudour, rep

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