 Passing through the arched gateway, we enter a noble courtyard, with four great facades looking down upon it, each ornamented from one end to the other with the richest and most intricate carving known in the art of the builders of Uxmal ; presenting...  West American History - Page 189by Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 644 lehte
...the same principle with those of the house of the governor. The fronts looking upon the court " are ornamented from one end to the other with the richest...strange magnificence, surpassing any that is now to be seen among the ruins." Among the decorations of one of 1843.] [July, facades, the most remarkable... | |
 | 1843 - 668 lehte
...the arched gateway, we enter a noble court-yard, with four great l'ac;ades looking down upon it, each ornamented from one end to the other with the richest...strange magnificence, surpassing any that is now to be seen among its ruins. This court-yard is two hundred and fourteen feet wide, and two hundred and... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1843 - 540 lehte
...the arched gateway, we enter a noble courtyard, with four great facades looking down upon it, each ornamented from one end to the other with the richest...of strange magnificence, surpassing any that is now THE COURTYARD. Plan of the Courtyard. to be seen among its ruins. This courtyard is two hundred and... | |
 | 1844 - 276 lehte
...court-yard, with four great facades looking down upon it, each ornamented from one end to the other with the most intricate carving known in the art of the builders...of strange magnificence, surpassing any that is now seen among its ruins. The whirring flight of the quail alone disturbed the silence and desolation of... | |
 | Ephraim George Squier - 1851 - 294 lehte
...Mr. Stephens, " we enter this noble court-yard, with four great facades looking down upon it, each ornamented from one end to the other with the richest and most elaborate carving known in the art of the builders. The facade on the left is most richly ornamented,... | |
 | JOHN L. STEPHENS - 1868 - 506 lehte
...the arched gateway, we enter a noble courtyard, with four great facades looking down upon it, each ornamented from one end to the other with the richest...of strange magnificence, surpassing any that is now THE COURTYARD. Plan of the Courtyard. to be seen among its ruins. This courtyard is two hundred and... | |
 | John Denison Baldwin - 1871 - 440 lehte
...those in front, open on the court. Mr. Stephens found the four great fa9ades fronting the court-yard " ornamented from one end to the other with the richest and most intricate carving known, to the builders of Uxinal, presenting a scene of strange magnificence which surpasses any other now... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1875 - 832 lehte
...treillis sont histories, les encorbellements empiles supprim^s.' VMlet-le-Duc, in Id., p. 67. 4' I append a few general quotations concerning the Nunnery:...intricate carving known in the art of the builders of Uxnial; presenting a scene of strange magnificence, surpassing any that is now to be seen among its... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1875 - 842 lehte
...shown on the plan is not stated, has been more than mentioned by any visitor. This one exception 4 ? I append a few general quotations concerning the Nunnery:...and most intricate carving known in the art of the huilders of Uxmal; presenting a scene of strange magnificence, surpassing any that is now to be seen... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1875 - 832 lehte
...treillis sont histories, leg encorbellcments empiles gupprime'g.' Viollet-le-Duc, in Id., p. 67. 47 I append a few general quotations concerning the Nunnery:...'ornamented from one end to the other with the richest and mogt intricate carving known in the art of the builders of Uxmal; presenting a gcene of strange magnificence,... | |
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