The Stones of Venice : V.2, the Sea-Stories
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The in- troduction of tracery was not only a startling change in the treatment of window lights, but admitted endless changes in the interlacement of the tracery bars themselves. So that, while in all living Christian architecture the love of variety exists, the Gothic schools exhibited that love in culminating energy ; and their influence, wherever it extended itself, may be sooner and farther traced by this character than by any other ; the tendency to the adoption of Gothic types being alway...s first shown by greater irregularity and richer variation in the forms of the architecture it is about to supersede, long before the appearance of the pointed arch or of any other recognizable outward sign of the Gothic mind.
§ xxxii. "We must, however, herein note carefully what dis- tinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change ; for as it was in healthy love of change that tho Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of dis- eased love of change that it was destroyed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The in- troduction of tracery was not only a startling change in the treatment of window lights, but admitted endless changes in the interlacement of the tracery bars themselves. So that, while in all living Christian architecture the love of variety exists, the Gothic schools exhibited that love in culminating energy ; and their influence, wherever it extended itself, may be sooner and farther traced by this character than by any other ; the tendency to the adoption of Gothic types being alway...s first shown by greater irregularity and richer variation in the forms of the architecture it is about to supersede, long before the appearance of the pointed arch or of any other recognizable outward sign of the Gothic mind.
§ xxxii. "We must, however, herein note carefully what dis- tinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change ; for as it was in healthy love of change that tho Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of dis- eased love of change that it was destroyed.
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