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 428
rd, and thechurches became enormously high. But both characterssuited the vigorous minds of the northern nations, and,perhaps, the very hardness of the forms, thoroughly sub-dued by that marvellous consistency which runs throughthe varied magnificence of form in a Gothic cathedral,served to… … 384 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. horizontal line, the circular arch, and the pointed arch,and how, at each new change in the main plan of con-struction, all the subordinate individualities down to thesmallest decorations were altered accordingly ; and hencehow the individual rules of…
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