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 422
show that it was their intention to imitate wooden con-structions. The verticality of the supporting columns,the general horizontality of the supported beam forcedthem to arrange all the subordinate parts for the greatmajority of cases in vertical and horizontal lines.1 The 1 Those not familiar… … ^ CO £ o I co oi ^ 380 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. purposes of Greek worship, which performed its principalfunctions in the open air, were satisfied by erections ofthis kind, in which the internal spaces were necessarilylimited by the length of the stone or wooden beamswhich could be…
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