 | Charles James Richardson - Architecture, Domestic - 1898 - 522 pages
...either in painting or reality, they were beautiful ; in ruins, there is no denying they are highly picturesque. Observe the process by which Time, the great author of such changes, works, first by means of weather stains, partial incrustations, mosses, &c., which simultaneously take... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...angsterfüllend sind und daher auch nicht zum Erhabenen gerechnet werden können. Als Beispiel gibt er an: "A temple or palace of Grecian architecture in its perfect entire state, and its surface and colour smooth and even, either in painting or reality, is beautiful; in ruin it is... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - Art - 1993 - 512 pages
...angsterfüllend sind und daher auch nicht zum Erhabenen gerechnet werden können. Als Beispiel gibt er an: "A temple or palace of Grecian architecture in its perfect entire state, and its surface and colour smooth and even, either in painting or reality, is beautiful; in ruin it is... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...that the two opposite qualities of roughness, and of sudden variation, joined to that of irregularity, are the most efficient causes of the picturesque....Grecian architecture in its perfect entire state, and its surface and colour smooth and even, either in painting or reality, is beautiful; in ruin it is... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - History - 2004 - 400 pages
...that the two opposite qualities of roughness, and of sudden variation, joined to that of irregularity, are the most efficient causes of the picturesque....of weather stains, partial incrustations, mosses, &cc. it at the same time takes off from the uniformity of the surface, and of the colour; that is,... | |
| |
A temple or palace of Grecian architecture in its perfect entire state, and with its surface and colour smooth and even, either in painting or reality is beautiful; in ruin it is picturesque. 
