Architecture and the Allied Arts: Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Romanesque and GothicBobbs-Merrill, 1926 - 283 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbey Ambrose Amiens angles apse arcade Arch of Titus archi architects archivolts artistic barrel vaults bas-relief Basilica of Constantine beauty builders building built buttresses Byzantine art Caen carved cathedral of Paris cathedral of Pisa chapel Chartres choir Christian circular classical Cluny columns Corinthian crown decorative diagonal ribs dome elliptical groin vaults Empire example expression façade feet fifth century French frieze front gable Galla Placidia Gothic architecture Gothic art Gothic church Greek temple groin vaults impost Interior Fig Italy Lombard marble Mark's mediæval Middle Ages Milan monuments mosaic nature nave nave vaults Norman ornament painting Parthenon Paul's pendentives piers pilasters Pisa Plan Fig portals post and lintel Ravenna Roman architecture Romanesque Romanesque architecture Rome Santa Sophia sculpture sense shafts side aisles space spire square compartment stone story structural style support and abutment surfaces tecture things thirteenth century thrust tion tower transepts triforium vaulting compartment wall weight
Passagens conhecidas
Página 243 - The glorious company of the Apostles, The goodly fellowship of the Prophets, The noble army of Martyrs praise thee.
Página 59 - ... his view, that he can notice and illustrate, as he proceeds, all the characters of the relation of the parts to one another and to the whole.
Página 231 - Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? This is no metaphor, it is a simple scientific fact: we start out of Nothingness, take figure, and are Apparitions; round us, as round the veriest spectre, is Eternity; and to Eternity minutes are as years and aeons.
Página 263 - So doth the potter sitting at his work, And turning the wheel about with his feet, Who is always carefully set at his work, And maketh all his work by number; He fashioneth the clay with his arm, And boweth down his strength before his feet; He applieth himself to lead it over; And he is diligent to make clean the furnace : All these trust to their hands: And every one is wise in his work.
Página 263 - The smith also sitting by the anvil, and considering the iron work, the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer and the anvil is ever in his ears, and his eyes look still upon the pattern of the thing that he maketh; he setteth his mind to finish his work, and watcheth to polish it perfectly...
Página 263 - So doth the potter sitting at his work, and turning the wheel about with his feet, who is always carefully set at his work, and maketh all his work by number; he fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet; he applieth himself to lead it over; and he is diligent to make clean the furnace: all these trust to their hands: and every one is wise in his work. Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and...
Página 34 - Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man for whatsoever uses, that the sight of them contributes to his mental health, power and pleasure.
Página 265 - Who could tell of the beauty of the columns and marbles with which the church is adorned ? One would think that one had come upon a meadow full of flowers in bloom ! Who would not admire the purple tints of some and the green of others, the glowing red and the glittering white, and those too, which nature...
Página 266 - Romanceros to which it is a sister production, — the prodigious result of a draught upon the whole resources of an era, in which upon every stone is seen displayed, in a hundred varieties, the fancy of the workman disciplined by the genius of the artist, — a sort of human Creation, in short, mighty and prolific as the Divine Creation, of which it seems to have caught the double character, variety and eternity.
Página 263 - They shall not sit on the judges' seat, Nor understand the sentence of judgment: They cannot declare justice and judgment; And they shall not be found where parables are spoken. But they will maintain the state of the world, And all their desire is in the work of their craft.