 | 1918 - 492 Seiten
...back-ground is in painting, in architecture is the real ground on which the building is erected; and no architect took greater care that his work should...ground without expectation or preparation. This is a tribute which a painter owes to an architect who composed like a painter, and was defrauded of the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Graham Jackson - 1922 - 328 Seiten
...composition. To support his principal object he produced his second and third groups or masses ...... and no architect took greater care that his work should not appear crude and hard. That is, it did not abruptly start out of the ground without expectation or preparation1." Both at Castle Howard... | |
 | Michael Bright - 1984 - 328 Seiten
...then proceeds to praise Vanbrugh, "an Architect who composed like a Painter," because his buildings "did not abruptly start out of the ground without expectation or preparation" ("Discourse XIII"). In attributing this virtue to Vanbrugh, Reynolds is applying the principle of insensible... | |
 | 1839 - 348 Seiten
...no architect took greater care than he that his work should not appear crude and hard, — that is, it did not abruptly start out of the ground without expectation or preparation. This is a tribute which a painter owes to an architect who composed like a painter ; and was defrauded of the... | |
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What the back-ground is in painting, in architecture is the real ground on which the building is erected ; and no architect took greater care that his work should not appear crude and hard, that is, that it did not abruptly start out of the ground without... 
