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 318
artistic demands, it is strange thatthe artistic propriety of increasing the pitch of the window-caps in successive stories by regular gradations has not beenformally recognized. For instance, the arches over theopenings of the first story could be made nearly horizontal,those of the second story… … GRADATION IN ARCHITECTURE. 295 lower story of the Rath House of Brunswick, Germany,(Fig. 98, page 294), the upper stories will reveal some-thing of the effect that is here suggested. The samemay be seen, too, as applied to interiors, in the successivearches of the Church of San Pedro de Cardefia…
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