Identifier: gothicarchitectu01jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s well described by the samewriter. He says at the end of the 13th century weno longer find the individual stamp which marks eachMonotony building at the beginning of it. The general arrange-ment, the construction, and the ornament take already amonotonous aspect, which favours mediocrity at the costof genius. Science carries the day over art, and absorbsit. Solids are reduced to the least possible, windowsenlarged to the greatest extent, spires rise on supportsthat seem incapable of carrying them, mouldings aredivided into an infinity of members, and piers are com-posed of bundles of colonnettes as numerous as the archmouldings they support. Sculpture loses its importance,starved by the geometrical combinations of the architec-ture. In spite of the excessive skill and logic whichpresides over the architecture, it leaves you cold inpresence of its efforts, in which one finds more calculation 1 Diet. Rats, vol. 1. p. 239. 2 Ibid. vol. II. p. 378. of 14thcenturyGothic inFrance Plate L V
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