The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 91
l, is possiblysuggested by the oldest nation. Renaissance is the revival of the classic which is Greek, and the artof Greece was inspired by that of Egypt. Greek fret was used by theChinese before the birth of the first Greek, and the Chinese fret wassuggested by the sea waves. And so the different… … Fig. I—Door Knocker by Betnenuto Cellini, on the Door of a Paris Hoiis^ The .Irchltcct and Entiinccr 83 evolved from what has gone before, alwajS retaining to a greater or lessdegree some detail of ornament of the past. France of the several nationsthat took part in the moxement of the Renaissance,…
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