Architectural Record, Volume 18Record and Guide, 1905 - Architecture |
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Page 29 - In these circumstances there can be no doubt that, from the point of view of the civil population, the occupying Power was lawfully wielding the State authority and, with it, the authority of the criminal law.
Page 257 - ... sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb, still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Page 362 - Internally, the beauty of the church is wholly due to its exquisite wall-ornaments. They consist for the most part of low reliefs in a soft white stone, many of them thrown out by a blue ground in the style of Delia Robbia. Allegorical figures designed with the purity of outline we admire in Botticelli, draperies that Burne Jones might copy, troops of singing boys in the manner of Donatello, great angels traced upon the stone so delicately that they seem to be rather drawn than sculptured, statuettes...
Page 331 - ... where the tissues are tightly drawn over the framework beneath, such sense of weight where they drag away from it — all this is beyond description as it is beyond praise.
Page 444 - In the old days we were told that a man who made two blades of grass grow where one grew before was a great benefactor.
Page 170 - Gothic architecture as a system of construction, in which vaulting on an independent system of ribs is sustained by piers and buttresses whose equilibrium is maintained by the opposing action of thrust and counterthrust...