The genesis of art-form; an essay in comparative æsthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1893)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 113
BALANCE IN ARCHITECTURE. 89 secured the effect of symmetry through that of principal-ity with balance. See Temples of the Acropolis, Fig.I, page 15. Our own architects have wisely ceased to imitate theGreeks in cases where to do so would be out of place ;but the principle of imitation has had, and… … FIG. 32.—CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, FROM SOUTHWEST. See pages 18, 77, 90, 124, 207, 261. have, such an influence, that, as applied to the Gothic, westill cling to methods that represent not its best, but itsworst phases. The tower at one corner, or at the side,which is so common with us, is an…
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