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Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:12:01 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Doyle G. Nelson writes:
> 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. :)
> >
> > 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!
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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 they were made with indigenous stone. :)
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> Doyle
Well, I'd comment, but Tony's already said what I would've said (snipped from
another recent castle post):
> No. Having visited a *substantial* number of castles here in England, and in
> Wales, I can see nothing wrong with the contrasting colour. If you think of it
> as sand instead of tan, it's the right colour for sandstone.
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> Sandstone is a nice soft rock which is easy to carve. So the high status
> details, like doorways and decorative corbels, are often fashioned from this
> sort of stone, while the bulk of the walls are made from rougher stones which
> happen to be available locally.
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> Actually, as most castles were whitewashed, most castle elements should be
> white :-)
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 the tan... I don't think it
was a bad decision on TLC's part, just not my ultimate desire...
DaveE
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