Lectures On Architecture Tr By B Bucknall

Author : Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230265919
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Architecture, Tr. by B. Bucknall written by Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1877 edition. Extrait: ... formation of that body of amateurs which has ever since had so powerful and injurious an influence on art. On their return the French noblesse desired to substitute luxurious abodes in the foreign style for their old chateaux and manor-houses; and dreamed of nothing but porticoes, colonnades, galleries, and symmetrical facades. The old Gallic artists therefore having completely exhausted all the resources with which the principles of Gothic Art could furnish them, adopted the new tastes of their clients. In the thirteenth century, it was the artists alone who had led the way in aesthetic progress; in the sixteenth century they accepted a style of art imposed upon them. But adopting only a foreign exterior, they preserved the national genius in essentials; the edifices they built were still Gothic in general arrangements and structure; but to please their employers they arrayed the old body in a new dress, consisting of fragments borrowed from the Italian renaissance. Since the ancient orders were called for, they adopted them almost exclusively as a mere decoration; the local flora was replaced by arabesques, and prismatic profiles by Italian mouldings. Jupiter, Venus, and Diana, with nymphs and Tritons, were substituted for angels, saints, and personages clothed in the costume of the day. The owners of the chateaux and manors were delighted; and the artists who at that time had scarcely any firmer belief in angels and saints than in Diana or Mercury, were not less satisfied at being disembarrassed of the worn-out garb of Gothic Art, which in point of form had reached the last limits of the possible. But the principles of art, --those methods which were the outcome of many centuries of..