National Review, Volume 10Robert Theobold, 1860 - Great Britain |
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... Italian of the Renaissance . The essence of Grecian architecture is to be an architecture of the entablature , not ... Italian ? • Scott . To call the modern Italian style " Grecian 28 The Foreign Office : Classic or Gothic .
... Italian of the Renaissance . The essence of Grecian architecture is to be an architecture of the entablature , not ... Italian ? • Scott . To call the modern Italian style " Grecian 28 The Foreign Office : Classic or Gothic .
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Scott . To call the modern Italian style " Grecian " or " Classic , " is to give it a delusive name of honour ; just as to call medićval architecture " Gothic " is , with many people , to give a dog a bad name and hang him . To talk ...
Scott . To call the modern Italian style " Grecian " or " Classic , " is to give it a delusive name of honour ; just as to call medićval architecture " Gothic " is , with many people , to give a dog a bad name and hang him . To talk ...
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... Italian style which we are called upon to accept in the name of pure Protestantism . If English Gothic buildings are Popish because those who built them paid a very feeble and very unwilling allegiance to the Pope , what are we to call ...
... Italian style which we are called upon to accept in the name of pure Protestantism . If English Gothic buildings are Popish because those who built them paid a very feeble and very unwilling allegiance to the Pope , what are we to call ...
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... Italian can be shown to be the best style for a Foreign Office , it follows that it is the best style for a church . To many people , we have no doubt , this sounds like a paradox ; it is in reality a truism . The belief to the contrary ...
... Italian can be shown to be the best style for a Foreign Office , it follows that it is the best style for a church . To many people , we have no doubt , this sounds like a paradox ; it is in reality a truism . The belief to the contrary ...
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... Italian , while in most of them Italian is surpassed by Gothic . But what at present we wish to insist on , is , that whichever of the two is * This definition is worked out at large in Freeman's History of Architecture , pp . 300 et ...
... Italian , while in most of them Italian is surpassed by Gothic . But what at present we wish to insist on , is , that whichever of the two is * This definition is worked out at large in Freeman's History of Architecture , pp . 300 et ...
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