History of the Modern Styles of Architecture: Being a Sequel to the Handbook of Architecture |
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Page 329 - His one hope lies in the knowledge that there is a "tertium quid," a style which, for want of a better name, is sometimes called the Italian, but should be called the common-sense style. This, never having attained the completeness which debars all further progress, as was the case in the purely Classical or in the perfected Gothic styles, not only admits of, but insists on, progress. It courts borrowing principles and forms from either. It can use either pillars or pinnacles as may be required....
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Page 436 - The perfection of Art in an American's eyes would be attained by the invention of a self-acting machine, which should produce plans of cities and designs for Gothic churches or Classic municipal buildings, at so much per foot super, and so save all further trouble or thought. The planning of cities has in America been always practically performed by these means; the process being to take a sheet of...
Page 274 - Paul's surpasses in beauty of design all the other examples of the same class which have yet been carried out ; and whether seen from a distance or near, it is, externally at least, one of the grandest and most beautiful churches in Europe.
Bibliographic information
| Title | History of the Modern Styles of Architecture: Being a Sequel to the Handbook of Architecture |
| Author | James Fergusson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1862 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 20 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 538 pages |
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