The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of TasteConstable Limited, 1924 - 265 Seiten |
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... imagination , trained in painting to seek for soft transitions and broad shadow , began to require those qualities in architecture . Till then , travertine had been used , against its nature , in the Florentine tradition of sharp detail ...
... imagination , trained in painting to seek for soft transitions and broad shadow , began to require those qualities in architecture . Till then , travertine had been used , against its nature , in the Florentine tradition of sharp detail ...
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... imagination far in excess , perhaps , of their effective use . Other forces , of equal moment towards stability , remain hidden from the eye . They escape us altogether ; or , calculated by the intellect , still find no echo in our ...
... imagination far in excess , perhaps , of their effective use . Other forces , of equal moment towards stability , remain hidden from the eye . They escape us altogether ; or , calculated by the intellect , still find no echo in our ...
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... imagination of the past do service for imagination in the present . But this was not the case in Italy . The difference in the conditions which ancient and modern architecture had to meet , no less than the craving for originality that ...
... imagination of the past do service for imagination in the present . But this was not the case in Italy . The difference in the conditions which ancient and modern architecture had to meet , no less than the craving for originality that ...
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THE ROMANTIC FALLACY | 37 |
THE MECHANICAL FALLACY | 94 |
THE BIOLOGICAL FALLACY | 165 |
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