Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 Seiten |
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... painting may at some time be executed ; the other too often spoils the fair surface by barbarous and tasteless disfigurements . Our posi- tion is this having so long discarded coloured deco- ration , excepting in a very small minority ...
... painting may at some time be executed ; the other too often spoils the fair surface by barbarous and tasteless disfigurements . Our posi- tion is this having so long discarded coloured deco- ration , excepting in a very small minority ...
Seite 75
... painter , in the higher sense of the word , it requires more nearly the same amount , as well as the same sort , of ... painting the ordinary wood - work of a room in a Gothic house is one of the most puzzling questions one has to deal ...
... painter , in the higher sense of the word , it requires more nearly the same amount , as well as the same sort , of ... painting the ordinary wood - work of a room in a Gothic house is one of the most puzzling questions one has to deal ...
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... painted in plain colour ; why should it not be picked out in different tints , its mouldings touched in with richer colours , and its panels decorated with delicately de- signed enrichment , in simple lines and flat painting ? This ...
... painted in plain colour ; why should it not be picked out in different tints , its mouldings touched in with richer colours , and its panels decorated with delicately de- signed enrichment , in simple lines and flat painting ? This ...
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... paint . Similar enrichments in flat pattern - work are also admissible upon a ground of natural wood , as upon varnished deal , and with excellent effect , if sparingly and judiciously used . For the walls , in ordinary houses ...
... paint . Similar enrichments in flat pattern - work are also admissible upon a ground of natural wood , as upon varnished deal , and with excellent effect , if sparingly and judiciously used . For the walls , in ordinary houses ...
Seite 78
... painting be large , it is more essentially a part of the wall , and if small , it may almost be viewed as having a separate existence , like an ordinary framed picture . If the papering or the painted decoration of a room be ar- ranged ...
... painting be large , it is more essentially a part of the wall , and if small , it may almost be viewed as having a separate existence , like an ordinary framed picture . If the papering or the painted decoration of a room be ar- ranged ...
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Seite 117 - ... whenever it finds occasion for change in its form or purpose, it submits to it without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty, — subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer.
Seite 141 - Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Seite 287 - Handbook of Architecture. Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles prevailing in all Ages and Countries in the World. With a Description of the most remarkable Buildings.
Seite 119 - I am quite assured that all the irregularities that are so beautiful in ancient architecture are the result of certain necessary difficulties, and were never purposely designed ; for to make a building inconvenient for the sake of obtaining irregularity would be scarcely less ridiculous than preparing working drawings for a new ruin. But all these inconsistencies have arisen from this great error, — the plans of buildings are designed to suit the elevation, instead of the elevation being made subservient...
Seite 118 - ... not masked or concealed under one monotonous front, but by their variety in form and outline increasing the effect of the building.
Seite 118 - An architect should exhibit his skill by turning the difficulties which occur in raising an elevation from a convenient plan into so many picturesque beauties; and this constitutes the great difference between the principles of classic and pointed domestic architecture. In the former he would be compelled to devise expedients to conceal these irregularities; in the latter he has only to beautify them.
Seite 4 - It is not too much to say that the ruling theology of the Church of England in the latter half of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century was...
Seite 117 - Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy...