A History of Architecture in All Countries: 2. Christian architecture (Continued.) xiv, 642 p. front., illus., plJ. Murray, 1893 |
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Page 262 - One, however, cannot thus be passed over — the form which windows in churches and cloisters were beginning to assume just before the period when the transition to the pointed style took place. Up to that period the Germans showed no tendency to adopt window tracery, in the sense in which it was afterwards understood, nor to divide their windows into compartments by mullions. I do not even know of an instance in any church of the windows being so grouped together as to suggest such an expedient....
Page 421 - ... century. They display all the rude magnificence of the Norman period, used in this instance not experimentally, as was too often the case in England, but as a well-understood style, whose features were fully perfected. So far from striving after novelty, the Scotch architects were looking backwards, and culling the beauties of a long-established style.
Page 118 - ... before it was rebuilt, in the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, the mania for painted glass had seized on the French architects, and all architectural propriety was sacrificed to this mode of decoration. In the present instance we cannot help contrasting the solid grandeur of the basement with the lean and attenuated forms of the superstructure, although this attenuation was in other examples carried to a still greater extent afterwards.
Page 534 - Looked at externally or internally, nothing can exceed the grace of every part of this building. Its small dimensions exclude it from any claim to grandeur, nor does it pretend to the purity of the Greek and some other styles ; but as a perfect model of the elegance we generally associate with the architecture of this people, it is perhaps unrivalled by anything in Egypt, and far surpasses the Alhambra or the other Western buildings of its age.
Page 258 - Germany in the year 1200, which, though it nearly ended fatally to one of them at least. shows how much importance was attached to the profession of literature at even that early period. Here the sainted Elizabeth of Hungary lived with her cruel brother-in-law ; here she practised those virtues and endured those misfortunes that render her name so dear and so familiar to all the races of Germany ; and it was in this castle that Luther found shelter after leaving the Diet at...
Page 350 - of all the architects of Northern Europe, seems to have conceived the idea of getting rid of what was in fact the bathos of the style — the narrow tall opening of the central tower, which though possessing exaggerated height gave neither space nor dignity to the principal feature. Accordingly he took for his base the whole breadth of the Church, North and South, including the aisles, by that of the transepts with their aisles in the opposite direction.
Page 279 - ... so as to make it look large and uniform, is another solecism found both here and at Cologne, utterly unworthy of the art, and not found in, I believe, a single instance in France and England, where the style was so much better understood than here. Altogether the cathedral at Strasburg is a building imposing from its mass, and fascinating from its richness ; but there is no building in either France or England where such great advantages have been thrown away in so reckless a manner and by so...
Page 23 - Nowhere do we find tha square-domed plans of the Greek Church, nor any form suited to the Greek ritual. These have given place to the Roman basilica, and to an arrangement adapted to the rites of the Romish Church ; but all the work was performed by Greek artists, and the Roman outline was filled up and decorated to suit the taste and conciliate the feelings of the worshippers, who were conquered Greeks or converted Moors.
Page 609 - To use a modern term, it is a fortification en tenaitte ; the re-entering angles are generally right angles, so contrived that every part is seen, and as perfectly flanked as in the best European fortifications of the present day. It is not a little singular that this perfection should have been reached by a rude people in Southern America, while it escaped the Greeks and Romans, as well as the mediseval engineer.
Page 233 - The arrangement with three apses possesses the architectural propriety of terminating nobly the interior to which it is applied. As the worshipper advances up the nave, the three apses open gradually upon him, and form a noble and appropriate climax without the effect being destroyed by something less magnificent beyond. But their most pleasing effect is external, where the three simple circular lines combine gracefully together, and form* an elegant basement for the central dome or tower. Compared...