10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEXASTYLE»
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
The hexastyle portico of the Ionic order has been walled up between the columns
, and an engaged inlercolumniation is continued on the walls of the cella. The
temple is placed on a high moulded basement, and was ascended by a flight of ...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ...
Beautiful however as the semicircular form is, it becomes unsuitable for such
purpose if a portico so shaped cannot be made equal to a hexastyle, or a
tetrastyle in antis, that is, have five intercolumns, because if there be only three,
either the ...
3
The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Difussion of ...
... and of the arrangement which is technically termed hexastyle, peripteral, and
hyptethral ; that is, it had a portico of six columns at each end, and ranges of
twelve columns along each side, the columns on the angles being counted both
in ...
4
The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long].
Hexastyle on both fronts, with wings of a smaller order, at right angles to west
front. [Parthenon — Plan.] Mnesicles, architect, 437-432 b.c. Hexastyle, prostyle
at east end, with a tetrastyle, diprostyle on north side. Tetrastyle, amphiprostyle.
Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge, George Long,
1842
5
American Architecture: 1607-1860
The other was the Tennessee State Capitol, built in 1845-59, in which Strickland
made a great display of the Ionic of the Erechtheum in an octastyle portico at
either end and an unpedimented hexastyle one on either flank, while catering to
...
Marcus Whiffen, Frederick Koeper,
1983
6
The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia
19 9.150 3 4.2, 2 6.65 1 2.966 Hexastyle temple at Paestum, . . . . . 20 4.25 4 2.93
3 0.52 2 4.75 Enneastyle temple at do. . . . . 21 0.0 4 9.75 3 2.0 2 4.83 Temple of
Juno Lucina at Ag-rigentum, . 21 2.0 4 6.1 3 4.875 . . Temple of Concord at do.
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The Edinburgh encyclopædia conducted by David Brewster, with ...
Temple of Sunium, Hexastyle temple at Paestum, Enneastyle temple at do
Temple of Juno Lucina at Agrigentum, . Temple of Concord at do. . . . Temple of
Corinth, Doric Portico at Athens, Propylea at Athens, Hypethral temple of
Psestum, ...
8
Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in Three Millennia
To the north, the ground graded upward into a sort of sacred precinct or a grove
surrounding the new Temple A and its altar, built over a Geometric burial beside
the Peirene stream.117 In the last quarter of the 5th century B.c., the Hexastyle ...
Betsey Ann Robinson,
2011
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of ...
This was generally the case with the pronaos, the vestibule or inner portico
behind the columns in front. According to the number of columns in front, porticos
are said to be tetrastyle, that is, with four columns; hexastyle, with six ; octastyle,
with ...
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,
1837
10
The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal
Portico hexastyle, Corinthian ; the general style bad. St. George's, Bloomsbury f.
1731 Hawksmoor Ditto, ditto ; Campanile excellent. Mansion House . . . • 1739-53
Dance Westminster Bridge 1739-50 Labelvc Length lotif i feet. Ironmongers' ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEXASTYLE»
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Book review: 'The Architecture of William Nichols'
... it helpful to have access to an architectural dictionary for such specialized terms as acroterion, cyma reversa, dado, hexastyle, and oculus. «Jackson Clarion Ledger, Feb 15»
Great walks around London: the City
... in which he raised seven storeys of offices behind Soane's perimeter walls, fronting them with a vast hexastyle portico with coupled columns, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 09»