Illustrations of various styles of Indian architecture : a series of fifteen photographs of some of the most important buildings in India erected between B.C. 250 and A.D. 1830, with a lecture on the study of Indian architecture, read at a meeting of the Society of Arts, on 19th December, 1866 (1869)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 author · London : Printed for the use of schools of art in the United Kingdom · leaf 88
dome rests on eight pillars ; but as an octagonal outline is ne¬ cessarily a weak one, they almost invariably add four pillars, one on each angle, which makes up the number to 12, and the figure to a square. This in itself forms a very pleasing pa¬ vilion, and this form is very generally used. When… … Diagrams of Indian Dome Construction. up 56 pillars, as shown in the diagram, which is the largest number I ever saw employed in a single porch. Now I have no hesitation in asserting, that the pillars of these porches are more artistically arranged than any equal number in any building in the West.…
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