The architecture of humanism; a study in the history of taste

INTRODUCTION 3 and material laws, not merely to account for the historyofarchitecture,buttoassessits value,then architecture wil ...

4 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM of those ends themselves; that is to say, by the external purposeswhichtheyreflect. These,indeed^ ...

INTRODUCTION 5 this more complicated and more restricted instru- ment. And wecanask,stillfurther,whetherthere maynot be aestheti ...

6 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM tureactuallyis,and estimatesthe phenomenon bya method as confused and fortuitous as itself. It pas ...

INTRODUCTION 7 must be separated, in thought, (^iticism of the Ijistoricaltypefailstoapply anidealand consistent analysis,for th ...

8 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM betraysthesefaultless arguments; for whatever has once genuinely pleased is likelyto be again fou ...

INTRODUCTION 9 infullmeasure,satisfy themall. And, intheabsence ofsuch aprinciple,itisquitearbitraryto pronounce dogmatically on ...

10 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM true halting-place. Thus the term 'Renaissance architecture,' which originally denoted no more t ...

INTRODUCTION ' ii native,that weshallfollowthistradition. Thearchi- tectureof Francein theseventeenthandeighteenth centuriesand, ...

12 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM architectureof the Renaissance, weshallsee reason; toconclude,maybe studiedas aresult ofpractica ...

INTRODUCTION 13 "artshasbeen for themost part no more than an incidentin, oraconsequence of,thechangeswhich men'sminds have unde ...

14 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM Humanism, toseehowtheprinciples heresketched out are confirmed by the practice of the Italian bui ...

CHAPTER I RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE Thearchitectureof Europe,in the centuriesduring whichourcivilisation wasundertheswayof classi ...

i6 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM though impassioned, was too reactionary, his con- clusionstooacademicand tooset,for an agewhen c ...

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 17 arbiter. Every architect confesses allegiance tothe antique ; none would dispute the inspiration of ...

18 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM workingsofanimaginationtoo swiftand restlessto abidethefulfilmentofitsowncreations. Inthisthe Re ...

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 19 fifteenth totheeighteenth century, correspondedto noracialmovements ; theywereunaccompaniedby social ...

20 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM Already inthetwelfthcentury therehad beenafalse dawnofclassic style. Indeed,it seems evidentthat ...

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 21 Alphonso in the South, in the North the Sforzas — these,andotherslikethem, werecertainlyinfluential ...

22 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM that oftheChurch, andeventhiswas notfeltassuch! tillafterthearthadacquireditsown naturalmomen- tu ...