An Historical Essay On Architecture

Author : Thomas Hope
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230340081
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book An Historical Essay on Architecture Volume 1 written by Thomas Hope and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XLVIII. REMARKS UPON ARCHITECTURE SINCE THE TIME OF MICHAEL ANGELO, IN EUROPE. We have left off in the history of the revived antique architecture in Italy with Michael Angelo, the first who resumed the colossal style--the single huge order, embracing all the stories of a building. We have shown that, in other respects, far from approaching the pure antique nearer than his predecessors, Bramante and Sangallo, had done, he only deviated from it farther; and though, in other parts of Italy, there started up now and then an architect, who, like Palladio, sought to stem the torrent of bad taste, and to construct edifices in a better manner, their example had but little weight when opposed by that of Michael Angelo. After having thrown off the legitimate The following estimate of the merits of Palladio may be interesting: --"Vicenza was the native place of the great Palladio, the elegant front of whose little mansion is still shown. Many superb facades, concealed in the narrowest streets and most uncouth corners, still bear the marks of his sublime genius. His most admired productions are the Olympic Theatre, the Rotunda, or country house of Count Gabrielli, and the front of the Town-hall. It is singular, that while Rome, where existed the finest and most numerous remains of ancient architecture, should have educated the modern architects, such as Fontana, Borromini, Bernini, / skackles of that style which belonged to their age, their religion, &c., the Italians were little disposed long to suffer the restraints of that of a different age, religion, country, with which they had nothing in common, and which they had adopted without call or motive. They had always, in every art, in painting, in poety, in narrative, even in sculpture and...