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connected by covered arcades or long lines of canals, the centre of
which is adorned by fountains of the most elegant forms.
Individually these detached buildings are often of great beauty
and most elaborately ornamented, and the whole effect is pleasing and
tasteful ; but for true architectural effect they are too scattered, and
the whole is generally very deficient in grandeur.
The Throne-room at Teheran (WoodcutNo. 1012) is a fair specimen
of these buildings, though, in fact, it is only a porch or deep recess
opening on a garden, the front being supported or ornamented by two
twisted columns. In front of these a massive curtain is drawn out
when the room is used, and both for colour and richness of effect the
curtain is virtually the principal feature in the composition.
1012. Throne-room at Teheran. (From ‘ Nineveh and Persepolis Restored.’)
The next example is taken from the palace of Char Bagh, or the
“ Four Gardens,” at Ispahan, and shows the general picturesque form
these buildings assume. It is by no means so favourable a specimen
as the last, though this may arise more from the nature of the building
than from any defect on the part of its a.rchitect. Many of the
pavilions in the same palace are of great lightness and elegance,
though, most of them being supported by wooden pillars, and being
of very ephemeral construction, they hardly belong to the higher cla.ss
of architectural art.
The Caravanserais form another class of imildings, not peculiar, it
is true, to Persia, but which, from the character of the traffic in mer-
chandise, and the general insecurity of the roads along which it is
conducted, has received a great development in that country. Inter-
2 p 2
PERSIA.
579
connected by covered arcades or long lines of canals, the centre of
which is adorned by fountains of the most elegant forms.
Individually these detached buildings are often of great beauty
and most elaborately ornamented, and the whole effect is pleasing and
tasteful ; but for true architectural effect they are too scattered, and
the whole is generally very deficient in grandeur.
The Throne-room at Teheran (WoodcutNo. 1012) is a fair specimen
of these buildings, though, in fact, it is only a porch or deep recess
opening on a garden, the front being supported or ornamented by two
twisted columns. In front of these a massive curtain is drawn out
when the room is used, and both for colour and richness of effect the
curtain is virtually the principal feature in the composition.
1012. Throne-room at Teheran. (From ‘ Nineveh and Persepolis Restored.’)
The next example is taken from the palace of Char Bagh, or the
“ Four Gardens,” at Ispahan, and shows the general picturesque form
these buildings assume. It is by no means so favourable a specimen
as the last, though this may arise more from the nature of the building
than from any defect on the part of its a.rchitect. Many of the
pavilions in the same palace are of great lightness and elegance,
though, most of them being supported by wooden pillars, and being
of very ephemeral construction, they hardly belong to the higher cla.ss
of architectural art.
The Caravanserais form another class of imildings, not peculiar, it
is true, to Persia, but which, from the character of the traffic in mer-
chandise, and the general insecurity of the roads along which it is
conducted, has received a great development in that country. Inter-
2 p 2