The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . A CCMEAEISON BBTWEfeN QlOnoSGAMEAKOR A COLUMN lEDKIMB QUITHENQN, AND TEffi HCMAN MGURi— «) IV THE BODILY TEMPLE 53 THE BODY THE ARCHETYPEOF SACRED EDIFICES :^J^ feCpTHIC. THE, KANDARIYA CHUR&H (^ , KHAJUEAHO OUEN AT ROUEN Do we not all of us, consciously orunconsciously, recognize the fact ofcharacter and physiognomy in build-ings ? Are they not, to our imagina-tion, masculine or feminine, winningor forbidding—human, in point offact—to a greater degree that any-thing else of mans creating? Theyare this certainly to
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . A CCMEAEISON BBTWEfeN QlOnoSGAMEAKOR A COLUMN lEDKIMB QUITHENQN, AND TEffi HCMAN MGURi— «) IV THE BODILY TEMPLE 53 THE BODY THE ARCHETYPEOF SACRED EDIFICES :^J^ feCpTHIC. THE, KANDARIYA CHUR&H (^ , KHAJUEAHO OUEN AT ROUEN Do we not all of us, consciously orunconsciously, recognize the fact ofcharacter and physiognomy in build-ings ? Are they not, to our imagina-tion, masculine or feminine, winningor forbidding—human, in point offact—to a greater degree that any-thing else of mans creating? Theyare this certainly to the true loverand student of architecture. Seenfrom a distance, the great Frenchcathedrals appear like crouchingmonsters, half beast, half human:the two towers stand like a manand a woman, mysterious and gigantic, looking out across the city or plain. The campaniles of Italy riseabove the churches and houses like the sentinels of a sleeping camp,—nor is their strangely humanaspect wholly imaginary:these giants of mountainand campagna have eyesand brazen tongues; risingfour square, story abovestory, with a belfry orlookout, like a head, atop,their likeness to a man isnot infrequently enhancedby a certain identity ofproporti
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