Elements of Art Criticism; Comprising a Treatise On the Principles of Man's Nature As Addressed By Art, Together With a Historic Survey of the Methods of Art Execution in the Departments of Drawing, Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Landscape Gardening,
Elements of Art Criticism; Comprising a Treatise On the Principles of Man's Nature As Addressed By Art, Together With a Historic Survey of the Methods of Art Execution in the Departments of Drawing, Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Landscape Gardening,
Samson, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1819-1896
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It is a precious and speaking relic for the lover of art, bearing testi- mony to the early spring of a pure taste in Grecian architecture. Sect. 4. The ideas originatino the thbee obdebsof Grecian Columnar Architecture. While the general characteristics of architectural works still pre- served in Greece are perfectly uniform in all their main features £nom the earliest ages, three distinct orders of columns of different proportions, and more or less elaborate in the carvings of their capi- tols... have existed in Grecian columnar architecture. These orders have little or no relation to the advance of genuine taste and skill in Greece; since the three are all found in the same age at Athens; while the purest, the most truly immortal specimen of Grecian archi- tecture, the Parthenon, is of the oldest, or more properly most mas- sive order. The three orders are the Doric, Ionic, and Ck>rinthian ; whose general features and ideas are thus concisely, as well as beau- tifully presented by Thomson in his poem on Liberty: " First unadorned And nobly plain, the majily Doric roae ; Th' I
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