Stately homes in America : from colonial times to the present day (1903)
Desmond, Harry W. (Harry William), 1863-1913, Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 134
artistic originality, have always under similarcircumstances done: they did not try to begin all over again,but they borrowed what they needed. These general remarks, while they apply to all the arts,apply with peculiar force to architecture. The fascinationwhich the Old World exercises upon the… … THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING nite human expression than is painting or sculpture, is alsoincomparably richer in its historic and human associations.The momentous historic periods are illustrated in their paint-ing and sculpture; but in proportion as they were maturethey were incarnated in their…
Architecture, Domestic
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