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... church , especially the doorway columns . The dome is a square at base , but above the extrados of the arches is coined into an octagon in a curious manner worthy of observation . The Liberia is a splendid room , enriched with frescoes ...
... church , especially the doorway columns . The dome is a square at base , but above the extrados of the arches is coined into an octagon in a curious manner worthy of observation . The Liberia is a splendid room , enriched with frescoes ...
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... church is not re- markable for the richness of its sculpture or profusion of decoration . You enter into a double arcade of pedestal'd piers 2 ft . 11 in . by 2 ft . 11 in . , from which spring arches forming a vaulted ceiling ; it is ...
... church is not re- markable for the richness of its sculpture or profusion of decoration . You enter into a double arcade of pedestal'd piers 2 ft . 11 in . by 2 ft . 11 in . , from which spring arches forming a vaulted ceiling ; it is ...
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... church . All the architecture I have yet seen here is very com- mon - place . The domes are often ornamented externally by a covering of painted tiles , which has a very oriental effect . These tiles are used in every way here , and ...
... church . All the architecture I have yet seen here is very com- mon - place . The domes are often ornamented externally by a covering of painted tiles , which has a very oriental effect . These tiles are used in every way here , and ...
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... church I have drawn * is much better , as are also various ruined bits in the most dirty and remote parts of the city ; the fountains and public memorials are of classic architecture in Gothic forms , and are not good ; there are ...
... church I have drawn * is much better , as are also various ruined bits in the most dirty and remote parts of the city ; the fountains and public memorials are of classic architecture in Gothic forms , and are not good ; there are ...
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... church excellently carved , evince altogether a class of workmen who were not mere spiritless copiers , but of the true artist stamp . The windows , which have been almost all restored , are yet of very rich colour and in good keeping ...
... church excellently carved , evince altogether a class of workmen who were not mere spiritless copiers , but of the true artist stamp . The windows , which have been almost all restored , are yet of very rich colour and in good keeping ...
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Page 177 - By its own weight made steadfast and immovable. Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 144 - It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo, but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the H erodes.
Page 157 - Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
Page 176 - Rock-rooted, stretched athwart the vacancy Its swinging boughs, to each inconstant blast Yielding one only response, at each pause, In most familiar cadence : with the howl, The thunder and the hiss of homeless streams Mingling its solemn song...
Page 177 - And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 157 - Beauty must come back to the useful arts, and the distinction between the fine and the useful arts be forgotten. If history were truly told, if life were nobly spent, it would be no longer easy or possible to distinguish the one from the other. In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful.
Page 176 - Its stony jaws, the abrupt mountain breaks, And seems, with its accumulated crags, To overhang the world : for wide expand Beneath the wan stars and descending moon Islanded seas, blue mountains, mighty streams, Dim tracts and vast, robed in the lustrous gloom Of leaden-coloured even, and fiery hills Mingling their flames with twilight, on the verge Of the remote horizon.
Page 209 - Therefore does beauty, which, in relation to actions, as we have seen, comes unsought, and comes because it is unsought, remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect; and then again, in its turn, of the active power. Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.
Page 144 - Apollo ; but in that form which is taken from all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and of the muscular strength of the Hercules. For perfect beauty in any species must combine all the characters which are beautiful in that species. It cannot consist in any one to the exclusion of the rest : no one, therefore, must be predominant, that no one may be deficient.