Inigo Jones and Wren; or, The rise and decline of modern architecture in England (1893)
Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911 · New York, Macmillan and co. · leaf 164
to its neglectat the present day, is not too strong. Mr. Blomfield observesthat in all his studies, the one point on which he concentratedhis energies was proportion. He resolved designs into theirconstituent parts. He showed, for instance, that the Temple ofJupiter was based on a series of… … c c/] w►J O u Inigo Jones 147 asserts truly that what values are to the painter, proportionsare to the architect; and he follows with a passage which I amglad he has written and not I, though I agree with every wordof it, and could adopt it as the motto or argument of this wholevolume. The…
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