. Essays and Belles Lettres. Fig. 9. Fig. 10. parts of South Switzerland, and who do not remember theoeautiful effect of the grey mountain churches, many ofthem hardly changed since the tenth and eleventh centuries,whose pointed towers stand up through the green level ofthe vines, or crown the jutting rocks that border the this form to the true spire, the change is slight, andconsists in little more than various decoration, generall) 1 The form establishes itself afterwards in the plains, in sympathywith other Gothic conditions, as in the campanile of St. Marks atVenice. 78 Archite
. Essays and Belles Lettres. Fig. 9. Fig. 10. parts of South Switzerland, and who do not remember theoeautiful effect of the grey mountain churches, many ofthem hardly changed since the tenth and eleventh centuries,whose pointed towers stand up through the green level ofthe vines, or crown the jutting rocks that border the this form to the true spire, the change is slight, andconsists in little more than various decoration, generall) 1 The form establishes itself afterwards in the plains, in sympathywith other Gothic conditions, as in the campanile of St. Marks atVenice. 78 Architecture and Painting in putting small pinnacles at the angles, and piercing thecentral pyramid with traceried windows, sometimes, as atFribourg and Burgos, throwing it into tracery altogether :but to do this is invariably the sign of a vicious style, as ittakes away from the spire its character of a true roof, andturns it nearly into an ornamental excrescence. At Antwerpand Brussels, the celebrated towers (one, observe, eccles
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