. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Fcestum. Parthenon. Cora. other remains of ancient art. Nor is the architecture which the brush has perpetuated on the walls of antiquity, to be regarded as a mere capriccio. Throughout these decorations a great portion of the framework is architectural, and presents an assemblage of member* analogous to those of regular architecture, carried out with a uni- formity and consistency, which entitle these compositions to be con- sidered as an organized style, adapted to the purp
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Fcestum. Parthenon. Cora. other remains of ancient art. Nor is the architecture which the brush has perpetuated on the walls of antiquity, to be regarded as a mere capriccio. Throughout these decorations a great portion of the framework is architectural, and presents an assemblage of member* analogous to those of regular architecture, carried out with a uni- formity and consistency, which entitle these compositions to be con- sidered as an organized style, adapted to the purpose to which we find it devoted. It is not intended by these observations, to propose that we should solidify the decorations of Herculaneum or the Baths of Titus, (though it would be easy to do worse,) but it seems indis- putable, that the ancients saw nothing incompatible with beauty or good taste, in the proportions thus developed. Had it been other- wise, they would surely have avoided the semblance of architecture altogether, instead of elaborating into a regular style these exquisite creations of the fancy. (See the head piece.) Although this modification of architecture is confined to painting, yet there are other works of ancient art in which proportion takes as Antique Bronze. Marble. wide a range, and in which the modifications of design are to be di- rectly traced to the nature of the materials employed, and most es- pecially to the use of metal. The cande abra and tripods of anti-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London : [William Laxton]
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