. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. wasthe decoration of the face of the cave which formedthe dwelHng of the individual (see Fig. 171, page 315)-Openings, made for the access of light and ventilationwith more or less rude cutting scarcely worthy of thename of architec-tural decoration,were executed withrude implementsat a very early of stone,left to support thesuperincumbentrock, as the naturalcavern was en-larged, gave originto those rude pierswhich, at firstmisshapen, subse-quently squared,then reduced bythe cutting
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. wasthe decoration of the face of the cave which formedthe dwelHng of the individual (see Fig. 171, page 315)-Openings, made for the access of light and ventilationwith more or less rude cutting scarcely worthy of thename of architec-tural decoration,were executed withrude implementsat a very early of stone,left to support thesuperincumbentrock, as the naturalcavern was en-larged, gave originto those rude pierswhich, at firstmisshapen, subse-quently squared,then reduced bythe cutting off ofthe angles to anoctagonal shape, fig. 171.—rock tomb at myra in lycia. and further shaped See pages 315, 316, 375, 376, 387, 397, 403, additional cut-tings to a polygonal section, ultimately assumed the formof the cylinder, slightly tapered (see Fig. 172, page 317).Again he says: At an extraordinarily early period inthe history of mankind we meet with structures in whichstone and other mineral substances simulate construc-tions in wood (see Figs. 171, page 315, and 172, page 317).. 3l6 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. It would be unnatural to suppose that these construc-tions had not their prototypes in buildings of wood. In other words, to put this in language conforming towhat was said on page 314, the earliest traces of architec-ture indicate endeavors to make pictures—of course, as thematerial used was stone, to make sculptured pictures—outof that which was being constructed. Fig. 171, page 315,for instance, represents one of the earliest attempts atarchitecture that has been discovered in Asia at it, one would suppose that it was a cave, infront of which a framework of wood had been at all. It is merely a picture in stone of such aframework. Again, Fig. 172, page 317, represents a veryancient interior of a cave-temple in India. Here, also,one would suppose that pillars and rafters of wood hadbeen introduced in order to sup
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