. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. eringthem, it gives us foundations, steps, or porches; whenwith the parts upholding the roof, it gives us pillars,pilasters, or buttresses ; when with the tops, sides, andbottoms of openings, it gives us caps, jams, or sills ofdoors or windows; when with the roof and its immedi-ate supports, it gives entablatures, eves, gables, spires, ordomes. Fig. 173, page 319, taken by permission from the Intro-duction to Fergussons History of Architecture, willillustrate this. The part of the picture at th
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. eringthem, it gives us foundations, steps, or porches; whenwith the parts upholding the roof, it gives us pillars,pilasters, or buttresses ; when with the tops, sides, andbottoms of openings, it gives us caps, jams, or sills ofdoors or windows; when with the roof and its immedi-ate supports, it gives entablatures, eves, gables, spires, ordomes. Fig. 173, page 319, taken by permission from the Intro-duction to Fergussons History of Architecture, willillustrate this. The part of the picture at the left showsus little except brick and mortar and openings. It repre- REPKESEXTA TIOX IN ARCIIITECTURK 319 sents a house, but not a product of what, in any sense,can be termed the art of architecture. But each sectionto the right of this shows more and more of the develop-ment, through the play of imagination, of artistic possi-bilities. First, the vertical sections between the windowsare brought forward and given the effects of pilasters,wliich are also connected at their tops by arches. A cor-. fe^V^S?^^^ FIG. 173.—DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES. pages 52, 31S, 319, 323, 343, 344, 360, 380. nice too is added to the building. Next the cornice andthe horizontal spaces between the windows are orna-mented. Next, differently cut stone is introduced intothe lower story, horizontal string-courses are made toseparate all the stories, and a balustrade is placed abovethe cornice. Lastly, the width of the building is in-creased, and almost every feature in it is shaped mc-ornamentally and grouped more symmetrically. 320 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. Such bcini; the process of the development uf architec-ture, let us try to ascertain in what sense the art may besaid to represent both mental and material an experienced traveller comes upon caves or hutsor any buildings that have been used b} human beings,even if mere ruins like those discove
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