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academy accuse acter action adaptation admired adorn aesthetical American animal architect architecture artist Behold believe Bernini body brute building Capitol character charm church civilization color columns completeness decoration divine Doric dress edifice effect elab elements embellishment entablature essential expression façade Fashion feel form follows function Frank Lloyd Wright ganization give God's world gradation Greece Greek temple ground harmony hope Horatio Greenough human imitation importance impotent independent beauty instinctive effort Italy Laocoön light Loran Maison Carrée marble matters means ment Michelangelo mind modern monu monument nature ness obelisk obeys his law object organization ornament painting pediment perfect principles promise of Function propriety pyramidion reductio ad absurdum relation requirement result sail sculpture seek sense sensuous shapes ship smoothness soul stands statue stone structure taste theory things thought tion true truth ture tympanum utterance Washington words