The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 48
of the gable over thepointed arch endlessly rearrangedand repeated. These two, an angu-lar and a curved form, like the every-where recurring column and lintelof classic architecture, are but pre-sentmentsof Yo and In (Illustration18). Every Gothic traceried win-dow, with straight and vertical… … 42 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY Eve and Adam, as it were, forfrom their union springs thatprogeny of trefoil, quatrefoil,cinquefoil, of shapes fiowinglike water, and shapes dartinglike flame, which makes suchvisible music to the entrancedear. By seeking to discover In andYo in their myriad…
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