. The study and criticism of Italian art : second series. LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS1902 u\^02. CHISWICK PRESS ! CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. PREFACE In this volume there are but two papers whichrequire explanation. A Word for Renaissance Churches was writtenmore than ten years ago, and published a year ortwo later. My excuse for reprinting it now is thatso few writers, in English at least, have dealt witharchitecture from the point of view of the aestheticspectator. Our books on architecture treat of thisart in the first place from the builders, and then fro
. The study and criticism of Italian art : second series. LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS1902 u\^02. CHISWICK PRESS ! CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. PREFACE In this volume there are but two papers whichrequire explanation. A Word for Renaissance Churches was writtenmore than ten years ago, and published a year ortwo later. My excuse for reprinting it now is thatso few writers, in English at least, have dealt witharchitecture from the point of view of the aestheticspectator. Our books on architecture treat of thisart in the first place from the builders, and then fromthe religious persons standpoint, but, except by ac-cident, never from any other. And yet one who isneither an architect, nor an antiquary, nor a church-man may look at a church; and, although he benone of these time-honoured personages, he never-theless may enjoy the church with the acuteness ofa physical sensation. He will carry the remem-brance of it with him, and, reviving his emotion intranquillity, will delve and delve until he fancies hehas hadgri_33125001807748
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