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

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 23 orimposed continuitysuch as thatwhich, later, in the France of Louis xiv., gave to architecture a fo ...

24 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM and which, but for that expression, would never, perhaps,havebeensupposedtoexist. Inthe present ...

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 25 atelymade thetool of policythan bythis brilliant eflfortwhichtransformed the faceofItaly ; norhas th ...

26 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM architectural history—helped, no doubt, to create the demand which architecture satisfied. But t ...

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 27 InTuscany, ontheotherhand, thoughCosimohad to rebukethetoolordly schemesof Brunelleschi,and though t ...

28 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM ' theSpiritof the time ' wehavein thiscasedemon- stratedameretautology. ^ Norshallwe fare much be ...

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 29 anditwas basedforthemost partuponthesimplest traditionalRoman forms. Inproportion, moreover,as theus ...

30 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM far such a distinction between construction and design is legitimate for architectureis open tod ...

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 31 also the lightest. Their most remarkable achieve- ment was asuddenpowerofquietdelicacyandgrace. Conv ...

32 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM Theirmarbles and theirstonesare often of paintedi stucco. When the blocks of masonry with which! ...

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 33 Theyhad animmediatepreferenceforcertain com- binations ofmassandvoid,oflightandshade,and, comparedwi ...

34 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM to disown its authority, and to be guided, if it is guidedatall, by instinctsofwhich theintel ...

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE 35 Renaissance was indifferent to these points it was bad taste, and the architecture which embodied it ...

36 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM weputfaith in oursensations,beforewe acceptthe verdict ofothers,it is necessaryto examine,/more i ...

CHAPTER II THE ROMANTIC FALLACY TheRenaissanceproducedno theoryofarchitecture. Itproduced treatisesonarchitecture: FraGiocondo, ...

38 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM and to explain. \ So it was with the theory of architecture. How far, in this change ofthought, h ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 39 the creation of architecture, the fallacies we shall trace to it are still abundantly present,in its cri ...

40 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM arts, mayimpose, then even that element of value which Romanticism introduced, becoming mute and ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 41 A. have said thatonly upon fixed conditionscan romanticism expressitself throughthemoreconcrete arts. In ...

42 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM introduce contradicted each of these conditions. It had a poetic interest in mediaevalism; but t ...