Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 138
H Fig. 17.—Ancestors of the Parthenon Frieze. instance, are some of the actual ancestors of the Parthenon metopes;and though none of us, now-a-days, will think them very interesting,we must learn to value the lesson they can teach us if we areanxious to emulate Greek proficiency, or establish our… … THERE is a squareness about classical decoration as shown bythe metopes in a Greek frieze, the Perpendicular style in ourown architecture, and the ultimate reduction of modern Artinto the picture, which appears somehow incompatible with any furtherevolution. Crystallisations assume an angularity…
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