Ornamental drawing, and architectural design. With notes, historical and practical. Upwards of 200 illustrations (1857)
Burn, Robert Scott · London, Ward and Lock · leaf 101
97 AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. Having now briefly discussed the peculiarities ot the two great epochs of Ancient and Mediaeval, or Christian architecture, we propose, before giving our examples for practice ” in the concluding section of the work, to glance very briefly at the points of the… … The term “ Renaissance ” means a “ revival,” and has reference to that era of the art in which, leaving the Gothic or Mediaeval styles, it returned to the classical, revising and modifying ite peculiarities. It was in this modifying that arose the absurdities and anomalies of the G
Architecture · Decoration and ornament
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