The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 70
uild-ings, reduced to their simplest expression, are discovered to resolve them-selves into a few simple geometrical figures (Illustration 58). But architecture is geometrical in another and a higher sense than this.Emerson says: The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is that anorder and a… … 64 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY cathedrals of the Ile-de-France—are harmoniously proportioned, their prin-cipal and subsidiary masses being related, sometimes obviously, more oftenobscurely, to certain symmetrical figures of geometry, which, though invisibleto the sight, and not consciously present in…
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