Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 217
Fig. ioi. — Leafage from the Ghibertigates. 174 ARCHITECTURE OE THE RENAISSANCE it may be taken as a true principle that architectural ornamentcannot be good unless it be an expression of the kind of beauty I do not say that the elementsof such ornament must be that we find in organic nature. … directly, or consciously, drawnfrom nature; but every qualityof line and surface that, in ahealthy state of mind, we feel tobe beautiful is exemplified inorganic nature, so that howeverabstract or conventional a pieceof good carving may be, itsforms will have a correspond-ence with those of…
Architecture, Renaissance
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