. The builders of Florence . ofthe Church as a material building—its decorative architecture—would be correspondingly borrowed and modified from the formsand resources of civil construction. Now this is just what we haveseemed to see at work in Tuscan, and especially in Florentine,Church building ; a process by which the primitive secular towerwas progressively consecrated ; its body as the Clergy-house, itsupper solaio the Belfry, its basement the graft carrying vaulting tothe Church to form at length the Romanesque and Gothic roof;its gallery system the fertile source of multiplied decorativ
. The builders of Florence . ofthe Church as a material building—its decorative architecture—would be correspondingly borrowed and modified from the formsand resources of civil construction. Now this is just what we haveseemed to see at work in Tuscan, and especially in Florentine,Church building ; a process by which the primitive secular towerwas progressively consecrated ; its body as the Clergy-house, itsupper solaio the Belfry, its basement the graft carrying vaulting tothe Church to form at length the Romanesque and Gothic roof;its gallery system the fertile source of multiplied decorative forms,within and without the sacred fabric. And indeed it is thus thatall great Architecture lives and triumphs, by moving on easynatural lines, not straining after effect, accepting its conditions,building for convenience, adopting, in structure and decorationalike, the suggestions that naturally offer themselves in the courseof ordinary practice. Such at least was the way of Florence andgreat was her reward. H i H(\,. ffitf ?3n ft 5
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