Old And Sold Antiques Auciton

Thousands of articles from the past.

Stock Preparation - (Found June 29, 2008 )

WITH the exception of papers made chiefly from groundwood, almost all papers are made from fibers which have been given some sort of a mechanical treatment.
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Modern Architecture - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THERE is little to add to what has already been said regarding the architecture of the eighteenth century.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-30.shtml

Architecture In America - (Found June 29, 2008 )

REGARDLESS of their interest to the ethnologist and the archaeologist, the wigwams and pueblos of the North American Indians were not of a nature permanently to influence the architecture of the United States.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-31.shtml

The First Great Transition - Classic - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Rome's first taste of Greek culture came from the colonies, a fact that is distinctly perceptible to the student of her early architecture.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-4.shtml

The Birth Of Christian Architecture - (Found June 29, 2008 )

The first great need of the now controlling Christians was for places of worship, and to fill this need several of the basilicas, or law courts, were converted to the purpose, becoming thereby the basis for Christian church architecture of this day.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-5.shtml

The Secon Great Transition - Romance Architecture - (Found June 29, 2008 )

There was building of churches after the basilican order, of course, during the tenth century, but they were for the most part unimportant, and the reason is one of the curiosities of history.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-6.shtml

Preparation For The Gothic - (Found June 29, 2008 )

IN the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries of our era the people of northern France reached the world's high-water mark in architecture.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-7.shtml

Greek Factors - (Found June 29, 2008 )

GRECIAN activities in architectural development grew on the foundations of philosophical and practical analysis of constructive work, which preceded them.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-3.shtml

Greek Architecture - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Our knowledge of the domestic architecture of Greece is derived almost entirely from descriptions by contemporary writers, for no remains of importance have survived.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-22.shtml

Renaissance Architecture - (Found June 29, 2008 )

IN the preceding chapter we have seen that classical traditionderived from the days of the Roman empirewas too strong in Italy to allow the principles of Gothic to be received there with any degree of favour.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-29.shtml