The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 64
IV THE BODILY TEMPLE 57 … English cathedrals, even those ofmoderate dimensions, are more trulyimpressive than even the largest ofthe great Renaissance structures,such as St. Peters, in Rome. Agigantic order furnishes no truemeasure for the eye: its vastnessis revealed only by the accident ofsome human presence which formsa…
Architecture · Theosophy
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