Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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Pagina 15
... broken Roman arches and shattered columns ( possibly sym- bolic ) . Leonardo enumerated as good subjects for painting ' mountains , ruins , rocks , woods , great plains , hills and val- leys . . . " and almost every artist threw in ...
... broken Roman arches and shattered columns ( possibly sym- bolic ) . Leonardo enumerated as good subjects for painting ' mountains , ruins , rocks , woods , great plains , hills and val- leys . . . " and almost every artist threw in ...
Pagina 251
... broken cloisters with their plundered traceries , the chapter house and dormitories and vaulted undercroft , the battlemented gateway and quadrangular court , impose on the imagination that feudal Lusignan world of which the great ...
... broken cloisters with their plundered traceries , the chapter house and dormitories and vaulted undercroft , the battlemented gateway and quadrangular court , impose on the imagination that feudal Lusignan world of which the great ...
Pagina 334
... broken Romanesque churches built into farm - houses and barns that stand among the fig - trees and olive - groves of Spain ; of the broken baroque Cartujas that successive revolutions have shattered and that poverty and cynical apathy ...
... broken Romanesque churches built into farm - houses and barns that stand among the fig - trees and olive - groves of Spain ; of the broken baroque Cartujas that successive revolutions have shattered and that poverty and cynical apathy ...
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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