Author : Walter Armstrong
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364259481
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (594 download)
Book Synopsis Art in Great Britain and Ireland (Classic Reprint) by : Walter Armstrong
Download or read book Art in Great Britain and Ireland (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Armstrong and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Art in Great Britain and Ireland In short, mediaeval architecture in England has its own character, its own beauties and defects, its own masterpieces and failures, which prove, like other debris from the centuries, that the people of our islands did not greatly differ from those 'of the Continent, so far as their innate aesthetic gifts and aspirations were concerned. The country swarmed with builders, who 'knew the style they worked in as they knew the language they talked. Now and then hints reached them from without. Now and then a strolling craftsman would wander in among them from some country of the sun, while their own employers, bishops and nobles, would stimulate their ambitions by accounts of what was being done abroad. But their dialect was their own, and in rearing the sacred and secular monu ments with which they covered the whole face of the country, they followed those racial instincts which have marked the Briton from their day to ours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.