A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . a generally triangular shape, and upon it arecut the two lions of very archaic type, restingtheir fijrepaw^s on the toji of a short column, sothat they rear up, each toward the other, theirbacks following the sloping line of the heads are entirely missing, and may havebeen of bronze. The work is of unknown date.(See MyceniBan Architecture.) GATHERING. That jjortion of a channel,duct, or similar narrow enclosure which is con-structed with approaching sides, by which thepassage is contracted, as ov
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . a generally triangular shape, and upon it arecut the two lions of very archaic type, restingtheir fijrepaw^s on the toji of a short column, sothat they rear up, each toward the other, theirbacks following the sloping line of the heads are entirely missing, and may havebeen of bronze. The work is of unknown date.(See MyceniBan Architecture.) GATHERING. That jjortion of a channel,duct, or similar narrow enclosure which is con-structed with approaching sides, by which thepassage is contracted, as over a fireplace at thebeginning of the Hue. GAU, FRANZ CHRISTIAN ; architect; 15, 1790, (Cologne, Germany); d. 185-1. Gau was naturalized as a French citizen andbecame a pupil of (see Debret) andLebas (see Lebas). He undertook the comide-tion of the great work concerning Napoleonsexjiedition to Egyjit, and also finished the thirdand fotirth volumes of Fran(jois Mazoiss bookon the ruins of Pompeii (see Mazois, F.). From1831 to 184-t Gau was architect of the prisons188. :. i ?! LJ-_
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