The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture: Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles of Architecture Prevailing in All Ages and All Countries, Volumen2J. Murray, 1855 - 4 páginas |
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Página 591 - Gennans 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. All their older windows, on the contrary, are simple round-headed openings, with the jambs more or less ornamented by nook-shafts and other such expedients. At the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century they...
Página 663 - ... new species of decoration. " So far as internal architecture is concerned, the invention of painted glass was perhaps the most beautiful ever made. The painted slabs of the Assyrian palaces are comparatively poor attempts at the same effect. The hieroglyphics of the Egyptians were far less splendid and complete ; nor can the painted temples of the Greeks, nor the mosaics and...
Página 811 - It is evident," says Fergusson in his history of architecture, " that all the architectural features in the building were subordinate in the eyes of the builders to the mosaic decorations, which cover every part of the interior, and are in fact the glory and the pride of the edifice, and alone entitle it to rank among the finest of mediaeval churches.
Página 740 - Had the nave been completed at the same rate of progress, it would have shown a wide deviation of style, and the western front, instead of being erected according to the beautiful design preserved to us, would have been covered with stump tracery, and other vagaries of the late German school, all of which are even now observable iu the part of the north-west tower actually erected.
Página 539 - The apse, with its gallery, the transepts, and, above all, the dome that almost invariably surmounts their intersection with the choir, constitute a group which always has a pleasing effect, and very often is highly artistic and beautiful.
Página 675 - Nothing can exceed the majesty of its deeply-recessed triple portals, the beauty of the rosewindow that surmounts them, or the elegance of the gallery that completes the facade and serves as a basement to the light and graceful towers that crown the composition.
Página 663 - Gothic churches, fill their sides with large openings of this glass, not reflecting that a gallery of picture-frames without the pictures is after all a sorry exhibition; but so completely have we lost all real feeling for the art, that its absurdity does not strike us now. It will, however, be impossible to understand what follows, unless we bear in mind that all windows in all churches erected after the middle of...
Página 480 - Plans, Sections, and Details of the Church built by Constantine the Great over the Holy Sepulchre, now known as the Mosque of Omar. 16s., or 21s. half Kussia. London, Weale, 1847. NOTES ON THE SITE OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE AT JElttJSALEM. Being an Answer to the 'Edinburgh Review/ of Oct.
Página 985 - From the time of Herodotus the Scythians were great casters of metal and famous for their bells. The specimens of casting of this sort in Russia reduce all the great bells of Western Europe to comparative insignificance. It of course became necessary to provide places in which to hang these bells : and as nothing...
Página 480 - 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.