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

THE ROMANTICFALLACY 63 force,hasbroughtwithitmuchthatisvaluable,and holdstheimagination oftheage, with anemphatic andpervasiveco ...

64 THE ARCHITECTURE OFHUMANISM purelysensuousimpression made uponusbyplastic form, and this willbethe more permanentelement in o ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 65 andthenecessary consideration, andthatinrelation to this the quality of a style should primarily be appr ...

CHAPTER III THEROMANTIC FALLACY {continued) Naturalismand the Picturesque I ^Romanticism has another aspect. We have seen thatit ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 67 itwhereveritmightbe found. As in the cult of the past, so, too, in this cult of the 'natural,' it was li ...

68 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM their bidding a change was wrought throughout Europe, assuddenasitwascomplete. Inamoment every va ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 69 great house. J But while the Georgian taste sought toimpart tothecottagetheseemlydistinctionofthe manor, ...

70 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM Whatmeasure of beautymay belong to such an architecturewilllaterbeconsidered.. Itisirrelevant he ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 71 it mustdisguise, orinsome wayrenderpalatable,the originalsin ofitsexistence : thefactthat it wasan artif ...

72 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM insist. Thatthe architecturaljudgment ismadein unconsciousness of the Hterary bias is immaterial. ...

THEROMANTIC FALLACY 73 influencewill, inalllikelihood, impose inappropriate standards of its own. The necessary balance be- twee ...

74 THE ARCHITECTUREOF HUMANISM support.. They were inconvenient rather than magical, and they opened, not on the ' foam of peril ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 75 association of architecture with poetical ideas. As that, indeed, it began. But we shall underrate its f ...

76 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM garmentandHisbook ; andthis,notintheelegant and complimentary sense in which Addison might have s ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 77 the mostgenuineemotionofourage. Theemotion wasasuniversal as itwas genuine.] A richharvest ofinvention r ...

78 THE ARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM On the one side was Nature: the curves of the waves,thelineof theunfoldingleaf,the patternof the ...

THEROMANTIC FALLACY 79 ocean andtheliving air,'butfewrememberedwith Wordsworthtoadd: ' andinthemindofman.' The architect's workm ...

8o THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM and,therefore, againstthe Renaissance—^forhowever deeply Orderand Proportion may characterise the ...

THE ROMANTIC FALLACY 8i conclusionexactly paralleltotheromanticismofHis- tory. Thelatter,faswesaw,becomingantiquarian,} emphasis ...

82 THEARCHITECTURE OF HUMANISM as possessing a value in the visual arts. And one cause ofoffence in Renaissance architectureis p ...