The column and the arch : essays on architectural history (1899)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. · leaf 232
of Roman civic and domes-tic architecture. This habit of proportion, once established, lastedall through the Middle Ages. The scale of theparts of a building had been adjusted no longerto an artistic system but to the convenience ofman, and indirectly to his stature. It neveragain, till the revival… … ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE 179 liug them. The practical man had taken buildingin charge. Struggling from the first with con-structive difficulties which bore hard on the im-perfect skill of his generation, he henceforth gavehimself up to working out the mechanical proc-esses of construction, and…
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