Essays on Gothic ArchitectureJ. Taylor, 1808 - 176 Seiten |
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Seite 112 - ... a Gothic Cathedral ; or ever entered one of the larger and more elegant edifices of this kind, but it represented to his imagination an avenue of trees. And this alone is what can be truly called the Gothic style of building.
Seite 111 - For this northern people, having been accustomed during the gloom of paganism to worship the Deity in groves, (a practice common to all nations,) when their new religion required covered edifices, they ingeniously projected to make them resemble groves as nearly as the distance of architecture would permit...
Seite 58 - Peterborough. Then to adorn their vast massive columns there was the spiral-grove winding round the shafts, and the net, or lozenge-work, overspreading them, both of which appear at Durham, and the first in the undercroft at Canterbury. These few things are mentioned only, because Mr. Bentham's work is so nearly complete in this part, that one would wish it were quite so. His own observation may doubtless suggest to him many more peculiarities, which, however minute in appearance, are not contemptible,...
Seite 4 - ... soon they erected such lofty structures. Indeed, great height they thought the greatest magnificence. Few stones were used but what a man might carry up a ladder on his back from scaffold to scaffold, though they had pullies and spoked wheels upon occasion ; but having rejected cornices, they had no need of great engines : stone upon stone was easily piled up to great heights ; therefore the pride of their work was in pinnacles and steeples.
Seite 102 - Moors (who possessed themselves of a great part of that country in the beginning of the eighth century, which they held to the latter end of the fifteenth) ; and that from thence, by way of France, it was introduced into England. This, at first, seems plausible ; though the only instance which seems to corroborate this...
Seite 111 - I would call the SAXON architecture. But our Norman works had a very different original. When the Goths had conquered Spain, and the genial warmth of the climate, and the religion of the old inhabitants...
Seite 108 - Although the Roman, or Grecian, architecture did not begin to prevail in England till the time of Inigo Jones, yet our communication with the Italians, and our imitation of their manners, produced fome fpecimens of that ftyle much earlier. Perhaps the earlieft is Somerfet-houfe, in the Strand, built about the year 1549, by the duke of Somerfet, uncle to Edward VI.
Seite xxiv - Somersetshire, which are remarkably elegant, are in the styleof the FLORID Gothic. The reason is this : Somersetshire, in the civil wars between York and Lancaster, was strongly and entirely attached to the Lancastrian party. In reward for this service, Henry VII. when he came to the crown, rebuilt their churches.
Seite 94 - Saracen works; which were afterwards by them imitated in the West : and they refined upon it every day, as they proceeded in building churches. The Italians (among which were yet some Greek refugees), and with them French, Germans, and Flemings, joined into a fraternity of architects; procuring papal bulls for their encouragement, and particular privileges : they styled themselves freemasons, and ranged from one nation to another as they found churches to be built (for •very many in those ages...
Seite 111 - Jerusalem) with the earlier remains of our Saxon edifices. Now the architecture of the Holy Land was Grecian, but greatly fallen from its ancient elegance. Our Saxon performance was indeed a bad copy of it ; and as much inferior to the works of St. Helene...