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OF HUMANISM

CHAPTERVI

THEBIOLOGICALFALLACY

Evolutionandtheinterestinsequence

Pre-evolutionarycriticismandtaste

;

itsnarrowness

;

the

PresidentdeBrosses;Goethe

Widercuriosityofmoderncriticismandtaste

Vague and confused sense of value entailed in this

enlargement.....

Substitutionofhistoricalinterestforaestheticvalue

FailureofRenaissancearchitecturetoconformto

'

evolu-

tionary

'

prescriptions

Biologicalmetaphorsinthecriticismofart

Ji.ttempttorepresentRenaissancearchitecturein

thesemetaphors

Itsplausibilityandfalseness

Evolutionarymisinterpretation

—

ofBrunelleschianarchitecture

ofBramantesquearchitecture

ofBaroquearchitecture

oftheEmpirestyle.

Theconceptionof

decadence;

its

generalinapplicability

t-

termsof

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CHAPTER

VII

THEACADEMICTRADITION

Renaissancearchitectureasan

'

imitative

style'.. 186

Sometimesaccusedofexcessive

imitation.. 187

Sometimesofinexact

orinsufiScientimitation. .188

Differentwaysof

understanding'imitation.' Brunelleschi,

Bramante,

Sixtus v., the eighteenth century, the

Empire

......

189

Humanism,

andthecultofpower.

. .191

Itsnecessaryidealisationofantiquity

.. .192

Estheticnecessityforaprincipleof

permanenceinart.

192

(Consequentdilemmaofan
architectureofpure

'

taste'.

193

nencethecanonisation

ofclassicform...

193