The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 75
stand like a man and a woman, mysterious andgigantic, looking out over city and plain. The campanilesof Italy rise above the churches and houses like the sentinelsof a sleeping camp—nor is their strangely human aspect whollyimaginary: these giants of mountain and campagna have eyesand brazen… … THEKANDARIVATIMPLE. KHAJUEAHO •ST. OUENATBOUEN is not infrequently enhanced bya certain identity of propor-tion—of ratio, that is, of heightto width: Giottos beautifultower is an example. Thecaryatid is a supporting mem-ber in the form of a woman;in the Ionic column we discernher stiffened, like…
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