Identifier: lettersofarchite01wood (find matches)
Title: Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece
Year: 1828 (1820s)
Authors: Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture
Publisher: London : J. and A. Arch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rs, with arose over them, but not included in any common arch. At the ends ofthe transept the rose windows and the openings below them are filledwith tracery. The aisles are high and well lighted, but the general effectis heavy and displeasing. The western portal is the most singular partof the edifice. The architect was Hugues Sambin, a native of Dijon,who is said to have been the friend and pupil of M. Angelo Buonarotti.The porch is a return to the first Gothic style of shafts and statues ; thelatter indeed have been destroyed in the storms of the revolution, exceptthose in the soffites of the arches, where angels are represented withwings and fiddles, and these are very little damaged. Many parts areornamented with Arabesques, and some of the capitals have the Gothictrefoil topsy-turvy. The arches are semicircular, and are surmounted byan entablature in a continued line. It seems, that on the first introduc-tion of Italian Architecture, the first period of the renaissance, as every
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CaPITAX of COLUMNS IN THE PORCH OF XOTltii JiAJviE AT iv NOTRE DAME AT DIJON. 121 body here calls it, the great lines of the construction were better pre-served than they were afterwards. I met a gentleman who contendedthat this porch was copied from a Roman arch of triumph, and presentedall the characters of one, though there is in fact no resemblance. Theease with which a Frenchman seems to utter all that comes into hishead, without any fear of ridicule, ought, one would think, to give himan opportunity of speedily correcting his errors, but for some reason orother this does not take place. The middle of the porch has a little cu-pola. Over the porch, the five orders of architecture, disposed in allways, are heaped over one another, as if, said a blacksmith, in whoseshop I sheltered myself from a shower of rain, they had got hold ofVignola, and determined to execute all he had described. This remarkwas the more just, as the orders really resemble those of Vignola. Itwould do well fo

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