A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 144
be taken in criticising his churches. The interiorsare, with few exceptions, rather bald, and destitute of the mysteryand play of light and shade to be found in the mediaeval church ;but Wren deliberately sacrificed these effects to practical con-siderations. He insisted that, if possible, everyone… … INTERIOR OF ST. STEPHEN S, WALBROOK. ii6 SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN [chap, vii throughout his career thoroughly conscious of what he was doing,and though an architect of astonishing capacity, he possessedlittle of the abandon of the purely artistic genius. On the otherhand, the strong point about these…
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