. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. Q. 210.—TENT OF EASTERN pages 376, 386. Look, again, at the shape of the tent in Fig. 210, page376; it is taken from CasselTs Across Thibet, andrepresents the tent ordinarily used all over Asia look at the shape of the roofs in Fig. 211, page shape will be found repeated in every temple andpalace in eastern Asia, almost without exception. More-over, whenever we visit palaces or temples in that part ofthe world, we find, as a rule, not one large structure, but,instea
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. Q. 210.—TENT OF EASTERN pages 376, 386. Look, again, at the shape of the tent in Fig. 210, page376; it is taken from CasselTs Across Thibet, andrepresents the tent ordinarily used all over Asia look at the shape of the roofs in Fig. 211, page shape will be found repeated in every temple andpalace in eastern Asia, almost without exception. More-over, whenever we visit palaces or temples in that part ofthe world, we find, as a rule, not one large structure, but,instead of this, in one large enclosure, dozens and scoresof structures, none of them of superlative size. This fact KEPRESENTATJON OF MATERIAL SURROUNDINGS. 377 of itself, but especially in connection with the saggingroofs, would be enough to enable us to detect the sourcefrom which these forms have developed, even aside fromthe descrfption in the Old Testament of the reproductionnot only, but the representation of the tent-tabernacleof tjhe wilderness in the elaborate permanent temple FIQ. 211—WINTER PALACE, pages 358, 376, 380, 386. So we could probably go through all of our presentstyles of architecture and detect in them no more thanlegitimate artistic developments of methods that mightbe termed non-artistic or natural. Two primitive roof-forms have been noticed. Figs. 212, page 379, and 213,page 381, will show us primitive domes—the first in the 378 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. form of a rounded arch, and the second in that of a pointedarch. Notice, too, the arched doorway in Fig. 213. , page 383, and 208, page 374, again will show us primi-tive turrets or spires. The former have exactly the sameshape, too, as some in Figs. 184, page 335, and 195, page 348. It is not meant to be maintained here that all archi-tects who first used the dome or pointed spire, or windowswith round or pointed arches, did so because they hadpersonally s
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