The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 23
llence, culminating in the Acropolis group.Every detail was considered not only with relation to its position and func-tion, but in regard to its intrinsic beauty as well, so that the merest fragment,detached from the building of which it formed a part, is found worthy ofbeing treasured in our… … forth its purpose, forming with the surrounding buildings a unit of a largerwhole. The Athenian Acropolis is an illustration of this: it is an irregularfortified hill, bearing diverse monuments in various styles, at unequal levelsand at different angles with one another, yet the whole arrangement…
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