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Title: A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architects
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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is by Donatello. They alsomade togetlier the Brancacci monument atNaples and that of ex-Pope John XXIII. atthe Florentine Baptistery. The Aragazzi tombat Montepulciano is ascribed to Michelozzoalone. Geymilller-Stegmann, Arch, cler Renaissance inToscaiia; MUntz, Senaissance in Toscana;Miintz, Renaissance; A. Schmarsow, IS^nnriStiidi intornu a Michelozzo; Vasari, Blashfield-Hopkins ed.; Bocchi Cinelli, Bellezze di Firenze;Guasti, II Peri/nmo di Donatello. MIDDLE POST. Same as King-post(whirli sec under Post). MIHRAB. (The Arabic word used inEgypt and so generally transliterated ; Mehrabas wiitten by Lane.) A niche in the wall of amosque ; or sometimes a mere semblance of aniche, as a decorative panel or tlie like, indi-cating the direction of the Holy City of Meccaand the most sacred of all the Mohannnedanshrines, the Kaaba. MILIARIUM. Same as Miliary Pillar. MILIARIUM AUREUM. The goldenmiliary jiiUar ; a column which stood in tiieRoman Forum, having been erected there by908 PLATE XXXI
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I ji<? MINARET Of the two examples that on the left belongs to pieces of Moslem art of the Middle Ages, about the mosque of Sultan Kalaun in Cairo, which is 1320 a.d. Tlie one on the riglit is that of the generally given as 193 feet high. The mosque is mosque of El B<irdei or El Bordenei, also in Cairo, ruinous, but the beautiful minaret is one of the best and dates from the seventeenth century of our era. MILIARY PILLAR Augustus, in 29 B.C., as a monument to thesurvey of the Komau world which had beenuntlertaken, and ()artly or wholly eompletal atthis time. It was of bronze and gilded, andstood upon a marble base which has been dis-covered in iiiudrrn times. MILIARY PILLAR. A Roman mile-stone ; one of tiiose jjillars which were si!t upat intervals of 1000 ))aces along the Romanliighriiuds in nil parts of the ljii)iirc. MILITARY ARCHITECTURE. (See For-titicatiiili.) MILIZIA, FRANCESCO ; architect andwriter; b. 1725; d. 179t<. Milizia studied in Padua, Rome, and Najdes.He is b

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