Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 140
... Byzantine cisterns stretch beneath the city - the cistern of the thousand and one columns , the cistern of the basilica . The Basilica Cistern— called by the Turks the engulfed palace -- still has water ; one can row in a boat among the ...
... Byzantine cisterns stretch beneath the city - the cistern of the thousand and one columns , the cistern of the basilica . The Basilica Cistern— called by the Turks the engulfed palace -- still has water ; one can row in a boat among the ...
Pagina 253
... Byzantine churches , tombs , and , domina- ting the scene on its high rock peak , the royal Argive city of Curium , a jumble of Greek , Roman and Byzantine ruins , beneath which the bold and successful General Cesnola found ( or so he ...
... Byzantine churches , tombs , and , domina- ting the scene on its high rock peak , the royal Argive city of Curium , a jumble of Greek , Roman and Byzantine ruins , beneath which the bold and successful General Cesnola found ( or so he ...
Pagina 333
... Byzantine churches that nestle like clustered fruits about the hills and valleys and cities of Greece . Too often in the undulant history of artistic taste , admiration for classical , Byzantine , Gothic or baroque architecture has been ...
... Byzantine churches that nestle like clustered fruits about the hills and valleys and cities of Greece . Too often in the undulant history of artistic taste , admiration for classical , Byzantine , Gothic or baroque architecture has been ...
Cuprins
THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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abbey Acropolis admiration Alexandria Troas Angkor antiquity Arabs arcaded archaeologists arches Asia Minor Athens Augustus Hare Baalbek Baiae baths beauty beneath broken buildings built buried Byzantine capital Carthage carved castle century Christian churches citadel climbing colonnades columns court crumbling decay decorated delightful desert desolation destroyed earth excavations exquisite fallen forest fragments gardens gates ghosts glory Gothic grandeur Greece Greek halls haunted Herculaneum hill houses Hubert Robert huge imagination inhabitants inscriptions island jungle kings landscape later look lovely magnificent marble medieval melancholy monastery monuments mosaic mosques mountain Mycenae Nineveh noble once painted palace Palmyra Pausanias picturesque pillars pleasure Pompeii portico quarried remains rich Richard Pococke Roman Rome round ruinous ruins sculptures seen shattered shrines splendour stand statues stones stood Strabo streets Sybaris Syria temples terraces theatre Thebes to-day tombs towers town travellers trees Troy Turks vaults villas visited visitors walls wild woods wrecked wrote