Category: Architecture
In trying to train the mind to judge of works of architecture, one can never be too patient. It is very easy to hinder one’s growth in knowledge by being too ready to decide. The student of art who is much under the influence of one teacher, one writer, or one body of fellow-s...
The work of Henry Hobson Richardson may be named as a noticeably intelligent attempt to regain the lost excellence of an ancient style without copying it closely. This appreciat...
2. CHAPTER IIIn chapter one there was discussion of the simplest Greek architecture--that which we call Doric--which reached its culminating point about 450 B. C. Considering now, very brief...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe unequalled grandeur of the Empire as it endured from 50 B. C. to about 350 A. D. is most strongly felt when we think of the Pax Romana--that Roman peace which forbade armed...
1. CHAPTER IIn trying to train the mind to judge of works of architecture, one can never be too patient. It is very easy to hinder one’s growth in knowledge by being too ready to decide. Th...
4. CHAPTER IVGothic architecture is a natural development of the Romanesque architecture of northern France. It took its origin in the second half of the twelfth century, that origin being w...
9. CHAPTER VIIIIn rather less than a century from the beginning of the Risorgimento all play of fancy or vivacity had gone out of the designs of the Italians. As early as 1510 there is little...
5. CHAPTER VIn Chapter IV we have seen how strongly the artistic effect of the Gothic churches depends upon their structure. Everything in the structure depends upon and leads up to the vau...
10. CHAPTER IXSo far as architectural history is known to us there has never been since the beginning of civilization a condition of art at all resembling that which surrounded the people of...
6. CHAPTER VIAbout the year 1420 A. D. there was a great change in the architectural outlook in central Italy. The Risorgimento[44] was already in full vigor, and this had to do especially w...
8. Chapter VIII.The generally chronological view which we are taking of all these changing styles, is a good help to memory, and through this, to swift and almost instinctive comparison. It hel...
7. CHAPTER VIIIn this chapter we must consider an epoch of transition for northern Europe. Chapter VI dealt with the time of change in Italy; but there was only a brief era of transition ther...