. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . FIG. 31.—CHURCH OF ST. MARK, VENICE, WITH pages iS, 77, 87, 90, 96, 124, iSo, 1S6, 190, 207, 261, 262. BALANCE IN ARCHITECTURE. 89 secured the effect of symmetry through that of principal-ity with balance. See Temples of the Acropolis, , page 15. Our own architects have wisely ceased to imitate theGreeks in cases where to do so would be out of place ;but the principle of imitation has
. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . FIG. 31.—CHURCH OF ST. MARK, VENICE, WITH pages iS, 77, 87, 90, 96, 124, iSo, 1S6, 190, 207, 261, 262. BALANCE IN ARCHITECTURE. 89 secured the effect of symmetry through that of principal-ity with balance. See Temples of the Acropolis, , page 15. Our own architects have wisely ceased to imitate theGreeks in cases where to do so would be out of place ;but the principle of imitation has had, and continues to. FIG. 32. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, FROM pages 18, 90, 124, 207, 261. have, such an influence, that, as applied to the Gothic, westill cling to methods that represent not its best, but itsworst phases. The tower at one corner, or at the side,which is so common with us, is an inartistic adaptation ofwhat had a very different effect when separated from thechurch in the structure called a campanile (See an Ori- 90 THE GENESIS OF ART-FOR.]r. cntal example of this in Fig. 30, page S6, and a morefamiliar one in Fig. 31, page 88). Nor can a huge toweror towers placed at the front (see Fig. 2, page 17) fulfilat all the same office as those much smaller in propor-tion which are kept subordinate to a tower or dome atthe centre (see Fig. 32, page 89). There is no doubt thatthe ideal building is represented not in Fig. 2, page 17,but by the way in which principalit}-, subordinateness, ^BkM^-^ ■ - M^mw FIG. pages 92, 124. and complement are all given their due prop
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