On Restoration, by E. Viollet-Le-Duc [tr. from an Article in His Dictionnaire Raisonn? de l'Architecture Fran?aise] and a Notice of His Works in Connection with the Historical Monuments of France, by C. Wethered
On Restoration, by E. Viollet-Le-Duc [tr. from an Article in His Dictionnaire Raisonn? de l'Architecture Fran?aise] and a Notice of His Works in Connection with the Historical Monuments of France, by C. Wethered
Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1875 edition. Extrait: ... action--and here we have a notable living example of the hero as artist, as poet, or seer, who speaks to us for our instruction and delight, not only in the printed volume, but in the still more fascinating language of form and colour. He approaches truth on ...
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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1875 edition. Extrait: ... action--and here we have a notable living example of the hero as artist, as poet, or seer, who speaks to us for our instruction and delight, not only in the printed volume, but in the still more fascinating language of form and colour. He approaches truth on its aesthetic side, and his doings are the record of its perception and embodiment in outward visible shape. He is not less successful in the representation of ideal thought and sentiment than in the rendering of direct specific fact. He never repeats himself, and nothing can stale his infinite variety--from the delicate aerial lines, woven as if by fairy work, of the aspiring fleche which so gracefully crowns the cathedral of Notre-Dame, to the grand simplicity and aptness of every detail in his own house at Paris. In him we see the gifted G artificer, graced with all modern culture, and filled with "The spirit of the fervent days of old, When words were things that came to pass, and thought Flash'd o'er the future, bidding men behold" what could be achieved in ages of faith. His mission has been to make the world more beautiful, and therefore better than he found it. I mean better in the large sense conveyed by Goethe's well-known dictum: --" The beautiful is higher than the good, because it includes the good and adds something to it. It is the good made perfect." In his numerous executed works in the department of representative art, we discern not merely the abstractions and isolated studies of the idealist, but actual or traditional personalities--vital subjects with meaning and purpose, which fit in expressly with their surroundings; imparting to all he does that sense of charm and satisfaction which we feel when contemplating...
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