The meaning of architecture; an essay in constructive criticism (1918)
Pond, Irving Kane, 1857- · Boston, Marshall Jones company · leaf 73
ring in the Doricand of the essential femininity of the Ionic? TheGreeks themselves have answered the questionfearing, perhaps, that the ages would producebeings insensate enough to ask it. The Greeksknew that life was incomplete socially, ethically,aesthetically, without the presence for… … [56] in the higher types produced in nature; in witnessof this, contemplate the gods and goddesses of theGreek pantheon, the manly men and womanlywomen of pediment, frieze, and metope. Intheir architectural abstractions such care was usedto keep the types pure and the definition clear thatwherever…
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