The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of TasteDoubleday, 1956 - 197 Seiten |
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... baroque architecture - in the hands of its greatest masters - slovenly or ostentatious , and for these reasons . But we do not complain of a cataract that it is slovenly , nor find ostentation in the shout of an army . The moral ...
... baroque architecture - in the hands of its greatest masters - slovenly or ostentatious , and for these reasons . But we do not complain of a cataract that it is slovenly , nor find ostentation in the shout of an army . The moral ...
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... baroque style is the antithesis of all these things . Whatever faults it may have , these are not they . Intellect in architecture has never been more active ; the baroque architects rehandled their prob- lem from its base . Where the ...
... baroque style is the antithesis of all these things . Whatever faults it may have , these are not they . Intellect in architecture has never been more active ; the baroque architects rehandled their prob- lem from its base . Where the ...
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... baroque architect . This is , I think , the ' new angle ' : it implies a better under- standing both of the nature of baroque , and of the true inspiration of Wren . It is to attend to Wren's language where previous critics had looked ...
... baroque architect . This is , I think , the ' new angle ' : it implies a better under- standing both of the nature of baroque , and of the true inspiration of Wren . It is to attend to Wren's language where previous critics had looked ...
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Introduction | 15 |
ONE Renaissance Architecture | 25 |
Two The Romantic Fallacy | 40 |
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