Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . The Chateau, Dinan, Brittany of the masterful repression by the mailed warrior of a sub-ject people ; and the contrast is most marked with those ofthe following period, having thin walls, lofty proportions,and elegance both of general form and detail, all combined 22 Architectural Photography. with perfect workmanship. It was an age whose spirit isbest appreciated in its architecture—an age of lofty aspira-tion, true nobility, and manliness, when the armed menlived for honour. It was the time of the Crusades, whenever
Architectural photography : practical lessons and suggestions for amateurs . The Chateau, Dinan, Brittany of the masterful repression by the mailed warrior of a sub-ject people ; and the contrast is most marked with those ofthe following period, having thin walls, lofty proportions,and elegance both of general form and detail, all combined 22 Architectural Photography. with perfect workmanship. It was an age whose spirit isbest appreciated in its architecture—an age of lofty aspira-tion, true nobility, and manliness, when the armed menlived for honour. It was the time of the Crusades, whenevery one, and all they did, was inspired by a noble, evenif we now think in some respects a mistaken, Christianity;and our great cathedrals and abbeys, as well as our village. Hotel Notke Dame, Dol, Brittany. churches are, all alike, the monuments of the age, reflectingits glorious energy and its high ideals. But, as at all times, excessive zeal soon wore itself out,and the brilliant early Gothic period in France and Englandwas as evanescent as had been the brilliant age of intellectin Greece. First came development and then deteriorationin the objects and in the lives of the people, reflected, asit was bound to be, by the architecture. The ecclesiastical The Effect Sought. 23 work showed the change most plainly, as the simply living,holy men of early monastic times were succeeded by thosewho put ostentatious display first. There is always some-thing substantial, however, in English architecture, re-deeming and often obliterating the defects of even themost luxurious times, and rendering in stone the difference
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