five Fine Arts, only Architecture isfounded on any material use or necessity. Isay founded on merely, because very plainand commonplace buildings of various sizesand degrees of strength would give us all weactually need for dwellings and defences andplaces of public assembly ; but from the daysof… … I.] INTRODUCTORY. 17 the splendid buildings of the Renaissance.These, and such as these, enriched andadorned with the best Sculpture and Paintingof their various periods, are the very headand crown of all that man has ever achieved ;he has invented these glorious means ofexpressing the boundless…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Aesthetics
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