Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Felix, 1836-1891 · Boston : J. R. Osgood · leaf 276
he genius of the Germans, who only leave the trivialities of lifewhen they lose themselves in the domain of a vague idealism,often difficult to be understood, and v^^hich sculpture, with itsrigorous geometrical precision, is unable to reproduce. HAMBURG. 269 We have already said that the faQade of… … Fig, 144. — The Museum, Hamburg. centre by a core filled with mortar, exactly in the manner thatcolumns in the Forum of Pompeii, and many other ancient pub-lic buildings, were constructed. The bricks used as voussoirsare adapted to the form of the arch ; their upper part is widerthan the lower, so…
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