The illustrated handbook of architecture, 第 2 巻1855 |
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13th century Abbey adopted adorned afterwards appearance apse architects architecture arrangement baptistery basilica beautiful belong bold building built buttresses Byzantine central aisle centre certainly chapel Charlemagne chevet choir Christian church of St clerestory Cologne commenced completed construction decoration defect dimensions dome doorway edifices effect elegant England English erected Europe examples extent externally façade France gallery German Gothic architecture Gothic art Gothic style height important instance internally intersection Italian Italy Justinian later least middle ages mode narthex nave nearly Norman Norman architecture Northern octagon ornament painted glass peculiarities perfect perhaps period piers pillars pleasing pointed arch pointed style porch possess principal probably province Ravenna rebuilt remains remarkable Rheims richness Roman Romanesque Rome round Saracenic Scale 100 ft side aisles singularly specimen spire square stone tomb Torcello towers tracery transepts triforium tunnel-vault vault walls western whole width woodcut wooden roof
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661 ページ - Italian churches, be compared with the brilliant effect and party-coloured glories of the windows of a perfect Gothic cathedral, where the whole history of the Bible is written in the hues of the rainbow by the earnest hand of faith.
770 ページ - ... feet clear. The whole width is within ten feet of that of Cologne, and the height about the same; and yet, in appearance, the height is about half, and the breadth less than half, owing to the better proportion of the parts and to the superior appropriateness in the details on the part...
809 ページ - It is evident," says Fergusson in his history of architecture, " that all the architectural features in the building were subordinate in the eyes of the builders to the mosaic decorations, which cover every part of the interior, and are in fact the glory and the pride of the edifice, and alone entitle it to rank among the finest of mediaeval churches.
539 ページ - The apse, with its gallery, the transepts, and, above all, the dome that almost invariably surmounts their intersection with the choir, constitute a group which always has a pleasing effect, and very often is highly artistic and beautiful.
662 ページ - For this purpose a set of secret signs was invented, which enabled all masons to recognise one another as such, and by which also each man could make known his grade to those of similar rank, without further trouble than a manual sign, or the utterance of some recognised pass-word. Other trades had something of the same sort...
983 ページ - Eastern pagoda of modern date than any European structure, and in fact must be considered as almost a pure Tartar building. Still, though strangely altered by time, most of its forms can be traced back to the Byzantine style, as certainly as the details of the cathedral of Cologne to the Romanesque. The central spire, for instance, is the form into which the Russians had during five centuries been gradually changing the straight-lined dome of the Armenians.
673 ページ - Nothing can exceed the majesty of its deeply-recessed triple portals, the beauty of the rosewindow that surmounts them, or the elegance of the gallery that completes the facade and serves as a basement to the light and graceful towers that crown the composition.
493 ページ - Fontane so far deviates from the usual basilican arrangement as almost to deserve the appellation of gothic. It has the same defect as all the rest — its pier arches being too low, for which there is no excuse here ; but both internally and externally it shows a uniformity of design, and a desire to make every part ornamental, that produces a very pleasing effect, although the whole is merely of brick, and ornament is so sparingly applied as only just to prevent the building (inking to the class...
985 ページ - From the time of Herodotus the Scythians were great casters of metal and famous for their bells. The specimens of casting of this sort in Russia reduce all the great bells of Western Europe to comparative insignificance. It of course became necessary to provide places in which to hang these bells : and as nothing...
659 ページ - ... was felt long before its definite appearance. The sources from which the pointed arch was taken have been more than once alluded to in the preceding pages. It is a subject on which a great deal more has been said and written than was at all called for by the real importance of the question. Scarcely anything was done in pointed architecture which had not already been done in the round-arched styles. Certainly there is nothing which could not have been done, at least nearly as well, and many things...