Reason in Architecture; Lectures Delivered At the Royal Academy of Arts in the Year 1906
Reason in Architecture; Lectures Delivered At the Royal Academy of Arts in the Year 1906
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
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i8)k is an example of the thoroughly developed English decorated capi- tal from the choir aisle at Lincoln, dating from about 1260. In this there is nothing left to raise suspicion of a Classic origin : the new Art has finally emerged from leading strings, and goes its own way without parental guidance. The final example of a capital that is given in Plate IV. beloijgs to the vestibule of the Chapter House at Southwell Minster, and dates from 1294. In this, of course, there is no trace whatever... of Classic tradition, and it therefore falls really outside the present subject. It is .given here merely to show how rapidly the Plate III WELLS To face p. 48 CH. II LINCOLN 49 Gothic Art progressed when it had thoroughly emancipated itself. The conventional foliage of Early English work has given way to natural LmcoLN Fig. i8 leaves and flowers, imitated so admirably from life that a cast of these Southwell capitals looks almost as if it were taken from real vegetation ; and yet it is designed and carved with so true a sense of the limitations of art that it has none of the weakness that distresses us in much modern carving of natural foliage, but retains the strength and air of support proper to a 50 THE CAPITAL CH.
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