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

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ANALYTIC SUMMARY

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The Romantic Fallacy
mistakes the secondary and

associative
valueofarchitecturefor
aprimaryaim. 65

CHAPTER

III

NATURALISM

ANDTHEPICTURESQUE

ThecultofNatureafurtherexpressionof
theRomantic

spirit

...... 66


a.

Naturalisma.sa.poetical

\a.hie.. .66

ItseffectsonGardendesign...

.67

ontheGothicrevival... .68

ondomesticarchitecture.. .68

Naturalisminpoetryandinarchitecturecontrasted.
73

b.Naturalismasanethicalvalue..

.74

Natureas

anobjectofreverence
;

Addison,Wordsworth,

Shelley,Mill .....


75

EthicalcultofNatureinantiquity
j

its fundamentally

differentattitudetowardstheReason.. 77

IllogicalpositionofthemodernNature-cultonthispoint

;

Ruskin ......


78

Consequencesforarchitecture

:

(i)PrejudiceagainstOrder,Proportion,andConven-

tion ...... 79


(2)

Subordinationofarchitecturetosculpture. 80

c.Naturalismasan«j/^«/(Vvalue.. .81

Rise
ofthepicturesqueideal

... .81

Italianquattrocentopainting

..
.


.82

Italianarchitecturalbackgrounds.. .82

Architecturebuilt andpainted;necessarypointsofdif-

ference ...... 83


Their
psychologicalground

...


.83

TheBaroqueastheintellectualisation

ofthepicturesque

;

blendingarchitecturalandpictorial

values..
85

Baroqueartinthegardenandinthetheatre.

.
87

=J^nd


inmonumentalarchitecture..

.

87^

Romantic naturalism

and classic style not

necessarily

iiicompatibl?;Claude

Lorrain,Poussin,Piranesi. 88
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