The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . d parts is so universalthat it would seem to be the re-sult of an instinctive action ofthe human mind. The twinpylons of an Egyptian temple,with its entrance between, for athird division, has its corre-spondence in the two towers ofa Gothic cathedral and the inter-vening screen wall of the the palaces of the Renaissancea three-fold division—verticallyby means of quoins or pilasters,and horizontally by means of cornices or string courses—was common, aswas also the division into a principal and two subordinate masses (
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . d parts is so universalthat it would seem to be the re-sult of an instinctive action ofthe human mind. The twinpylons of an Egyptian temple,with its entrance between, for athird division, has its corre-spondence in the two towers ofa Gothic cathedral and the inter-vening screen wall of the the palaces of the Renaissancea three-fold division—verticallyby means of quoins or pilasters,and horizontally by means of cornices or string courses—was common, aswas also the division into a principal and two subordinate masses (Illustra-tion 23). The architectural orders, so-called, are divided threefold into pedestalor stylobate, column, and entablature; and each of these is again dividedthreefold; the first into plinth, die, and cornice; the second into base, shaft,and capital; the third into architrave, frieze, and cornice. In many casesthese again lend themselves to a threefold subdivision. A more detailedanalysis of the capitals already shown to be twofold reveals a third member:. THH TJ?JNnV OF HOMZDNTAL^^<^^^VEKnCAL,AND CURVED UNE$- 82 36 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY III THE. LAW OF TRINITY: A THREEFOLD DIS-POSITION OF THL PAET$ OF A BUILDING—
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