The Quarterly Review, 246. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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... Sitwell . Grant Richards , 1924 . 6. Architecture : a Profession or an Art . Edited by R. Norman Shaw and Sir T. Graham Jackson . Murray , 1892 . ONE of the unhappy results of the war has been the loss of standards of value in ...
... Sitwell . Grant Richards , 1924 . 6. Architecture : a Profession or an Art . Edited by R. Norman Shaw and Sir T. Graham Jackson . Murray , 1892 . ONE of the unhappy results of the war has been the loss of standards of value in ...
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... Sitwell seems ready to sweep into the net of the Baroque any and every important building that existed in Italy in ... Sitwell to praise second- and third - rate artists and merely competent tradesmen such as Solimena , and to wax ...
... Sitwell seems ready to sweep into the net of the Baroque any and every important building that existed in Italy in ... Sitwell to praise second- and third - rate artists and merely competent tradesmen such as Solimena , and to wax ...
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... Sitwell indulges freely in the fashionable mannerism of describing things in terms of something else : Moon- light , for example , which is described as ' brittle ' in one paragraph , in the next becomes a ' sharp - pointed sword ...
... Sitwell indulges freely in the fashionable mannerism of describing things in terms of something else : Moon- light , for example , which is described as ' brittle ' in one paragraph , in the next becomes a ' sharp - pointed sword ...
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... Sitwell finds it to be of ' dazzling beauty . ' If this is his conception of the true Baroque , how can he classify ... Sitwell as a barbaric and tropical interpretation of the icy pinnacles and dripping grot- toes of the North ...
... Sitwell finds it to be of ' dazzling beauty . ' If this is his conception of the true Baroque , how can he classify ... Sitwell as a barbaric and tropical interpretation of the icy pinnacles and dripping grot- toes of the North ...
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... Sitwell was right in describing Baroque as virtuoso architecture . ' At its best it was the work of men of great technical ability , but of commonplace and even vulgar ideals , whose real anxiety was to display their skill . In the ...
... Sitwell was right in describing Baroque as virtuoso architecture . ' At its best it was the work of men of great technical ability , but of commonplace and even vulgar ideals , whose real anxiety was to display their skill . In the ...
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