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Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 03:13:16 GMT
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Doyle wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Timothy Carl Buchheim writes:
> > I like the tan. It's not unusual to use a different type of stone for
> > decorative elements of a building. I've seen this done on a lot of
> > Greek temples, for example. Such as the sandstone Ionic frieze found on
> > a Doric temple whose name and location escapes me at the moment, or the
> > limestone decoration on the Erechtheion in Athens, which is otherwise
> > made entirely from marble.
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> Your talking about asian architecture I am building in 13th century european
> architecture. Looking at the castle not many have tan carved images. :)
Greece is in Asia?
I always thought there was something wacky about my "Western Philosophy" class
(aka Dead White Guys 101) but I never imagined that was it!
J
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| (...) I was speaking about the old world, Not asian exactly but Mediterranean area near asia, as crusaders might call it. Point is you don't find many European Castle in the medieval period that used tan, yellow etc carvings on their castles. Mainly (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) be (...) castle (...) Your talking about asian architecture I am building in 13th century european architecture. Looking at the castle not many have tan carved images. :) Since its castle theme is gray in the 2000 sets they should have made it (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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