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 316
first recognized that the lower stories needed to be con-structed more solidly in order to sustain a greater weight;afterwards, their artistic sense led them to the method ofform which they adopted, and which, as all will perceive,gives to the whole a peculiarly logical and thereforeorderly and… … FIQ. 97.—CATHEDRAL OF SIENNA, ITALY.See pages 18, 87, 207, 261, 291. PUE GRADATION IN ARCHITECTURE. 293 angles over the doors and those in the roof, the latterbeing the sharper. Why is it, by the way, that this method of gradationhas not been applied to facades more extensively ? Why,especially in…
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