Architecture
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Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance PeriodManners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Periodhe several successive editions of "The Arts of the Middle Ages and Period of the Renaissance" sufficiently testify to its appreciation by the public. The object of that work was to introduce...
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Rhetoric and Poetry in the RenaissanceRhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance - A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary CriticismIn this essay I undertake to trace the influence of classical rhetoric on the criticisms of poetry published in England between 1553 and 1641. This influence is most...
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Old CalabriaOld Calabria I find it hard to sum up in one word the character of Lucerathe effect it produces on the mind; one sees so many towns that the freshness of their images becomes blurred. The houses are low but not undignified; the streets...
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The Renaissance: studies in art and poetryThe Renaissance: studies in art and poetryThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can...
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The Life of Cesare BorgiaThe Life of Cesare Borgia This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood...
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and PoetryThe Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find a universal formula for it. The value of these attempts...
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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyThe Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyDR. Burckhardts work on the Renaissance in Italy is too well known, not only to students of the period, but now to a wider circle of readers, for any introduction to be necessary. The increased interest which has...
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Design and TraditionDesign and Tradition - A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied artsIT may be urged with some reasonable basis of truth that much of the modern art work fails to attain the level of that of the...
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Natchez, Symbol of the Old SouthNatchez, Symbol of the Old SouthNatchez derives its name from the sun-worshiping Indian tribe, the Natchez, who were the original owners of the area on which the city is located. It is situated in Adams county, in the southwestern part of the state of...
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Italian Villas and Their GardensItalian Villas and Their GardensThough it is an exaggeration to say that there are no flowers in Italian gardens, yet to enjoy and appreciate the Italian garden-craft one must always bear in mind that it is independent of floriculture. The Italian garden does not...
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Japanese Homes and Their SurroundingsJapanese Homes and Their SurroundingsWithin twenty years there has gradually appeared in our country a variety of Japanese objects conspicuous for their novelty and beauty,lacquers, pottery and porcelain, forms in wood and metal, curious shaped boxes, quaint ivory carvings, fabrics in cloth and paper,...
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Colonial Homes in North CarolinaColonial Homes in North CarolinaThis booklet, planned for young student readers, discusses a group of colonial homes scattered over North Carolina, which remain and can be seen today. They begin in the early 18th century, for earlier homes have long since disappeared. The fate...
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Vitruvii De architectura libri decemVitruvii De architectura libri decemTranscribers Note: It would be wise to approach this book with a reference guide to Latin scribal abbreviations to hand. The Unicode characters used to render these are not supported by all fonts and may not display correctly. Additionally, there...
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The Mentor: Beautiful Buildings of the World, Serial no. 33The Mentor: Beautiful Buildings of the World, Serial no. 33Beauty in architecture is as difficult to define as beauty in nature. No single factor renders a building beautiful. Size and proportion, style and decoration, age and setting, all enter into account. And moreover there...
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Scientific American Architects and Builders Edition, No. 26, Dec., 1887Scientific American Architects and Builders Edition, No. 26, Dec., 1887Best in principle, workmanship, and materials. An unequalled small Motor adapted to all uses. When the Motor is not at work, the expense of running it ceases. Simple, Safe, Economical, Durable. No extra Insurance required....
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Mediaeval Church VaultingMediaeval Church VaultingThe student of Mediaeval architecture, especially of the Gothic era, finds perhaps its strongest appeal in the peculiar structural character which it possesses. Greek architecture, even at its best, strongly reflects a preceding art of building in wood. Roman architecture, when it...
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Early Renaissance Architecture in EnglandEarly Renaissance Architecture in England - A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625It should, perhaps, be observed that although this book is entitled Early Renaissance Architecture in England, it deals with much the same period as that covered...
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The Early Norman Castles of the British IslesThe Early Norman Castles of the British Isles.Some portions of this book have already appeared in print. Of these, the most important is the catalogue raisonn of early Norman castles in England which will be found in Chapter VII., and which was originally published...
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How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildingsHow to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildingsA POPULAR GUIDE TO THE APPRECIATION OF BUILDINGS By RUSSELL STURGIS, A.M., Ph.D. Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Member of The Architectural League of New York, The National Sculpture Society, The...
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The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 12, December 1900The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 12, December 1900 - The Cathedrals of EnglandSuch a general survey of the most representative English cathedrals as is undertaken in the present article naturally leaves no space for a detailed consideration of the various...
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