 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - Art - 1862 - 580 pages
...to have followed the dictates of a judgment the most rational when, transferring to the works of art principles derived from nature, every part was so...regulated as to bear a just proportion to the whole. And those principles were more particularly attended to in the construction of temples and sacred edifices,... | |
 | Seward Hume Rathbun - Architecture - 1926 - 424 pages
...have followed the dictates of a judgment the most rational, when, transferring to the works of art principles derived from nature, every part was so...construction of temples and sacred edifices — the beauties of which were destined to remain as a perpetual testimony of their skill, or of their inability."1... | |
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... principles derived from nature, every part was so regulated as to bear a just proportion to the whole. Now, although these principles were universally acted upon, yet they were more particularly attended to in the construction of temples and sacred... 