The column and the arch : essays on architectural history (1899)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. · leaf 284
g the Greeks. Medijeval ar-chitecture, on the other hand, was the child of theChurch, the heir of her wealth and her solici-tude. All its types were evolved in the buildingof churches; all its important buildings werechurches ; the form it developed for them was astypical and almost as obligatory… … THE RENAISSANCE 223 all their details were borrowed from the churches.But the feature which the mediaeval builders mostexalted, on which the whole development of theirarchitecture was founded, was the very one whichhad been banished from the religious architect-ure of the ancients—the arch. Greek…
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