How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 155
way, and in a veryecstasy of inspired daring climbed to undreamed heightsof greatness and magnificence. All architectural stylesare evolutional, but these men came the nearest to abso-lute creation that man has reached in the art. TheRomans, in derision, called their work Gothic, meaningthat it was… … THE GOTHIC HE very basis of Gothic architecture, and itsdevelopment, is the arch, and we must pausehere at the beginning of a study of the archto say something of the style in its essence.When the builders of the thirteenth centuryreceived orders for churches more than twicethe size of any that had…
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