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 313
GRADATION IN ARCHITECTURE. 289 tecture which in pillars, entablatures, niches, and pedestalssurround or support the figures. See those on pp. 30,74, 121. Both these methods have a place too in architecture.All must have noticed that perpendicular lines when car- … FIG. 95.—DOORWAY OF A CHURCH IN JAK, HUNGARY.See pages 180, 291. ried into the air, as in the case of two sides of a squaretower, seem to approach each other; also that when twosides of a roof actually touch, they support each other.Evidently artists.are only carrying out hints from thesefacts when…
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