Painting, sculpture and architecture as representative arts; an essay in comparative æsthetics (1895)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 420
ad of this, in one large enclosure, dozens and scoresof structures, none of them of superlative size. This fact L REPRESENTATION OF MATERIAL SURROUNDINGS. 377 of itself, but especially in connection with the saggingroofs, would be enough to enable us to detect the sourcefrom which these forms have… … FIQ. 211—WINTER PALACE, PEKIN.See pages 358, 376, 380, 386. So we could probably go through all of our presentstyles of architecture and detect in them no more thanlegitimate artistic developments of methods that mightbe termed non-artistic or natural. Two primitive roof-forms have been noticed.…
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