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Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 03:50:02 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jeff Johnston writes:
> 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. :)
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> Greece is in Asia?
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> I always thought there was something wacky about my "Western Philosophy" class
> (aka Dead White Guys 101) but I never imagined that was it!
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 they were made with indigenous stone. :)
Doyle
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| (...) Well, I'd comment, but Tony's already said what I would've said (snipped from another recent castle post): (...) I agree that it would be nice to have them in grey AND tan... as a matter of fact I think I'd PREFER grey, but I don't object to (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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| (...) 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 (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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