Architecture: Gothic And Renaissance
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Inside and out this material is utilised, not merely to cover surfaces, but to form architectural features. Cor- nices, panels, and enrichments of all kinds modelled in plaster are constantly employed in the interior of rooms and buildings. On the exterior we constantly find imi- tations of similar architectural features proper to stone executed in plaster and simulating stone ; a short-sighted practice which cannot be commended, and which has only cheapness and convenience in its favour. There... can be no question of the fact that the features thus executed G A M 162 REXAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE.
nevei* equal those done in stone in their effectiveness, and are far more liable to decay.
Design in Renaissance buildings may be said to be directed towards producing a telling result by the effect of the buildings taken as a whole, rather than by the intricacy or the beauty of individual parts ; and herein lies one of the great contrasts between Renaissance and Gothic architec- ture. A Renaissance building which fails to produce an impression as a whole is i-arely felt to be successful.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Inside and out this material is utilised, not merely to cover surfaces, but to form architectural features. Cor- nices, panels, and enrichments of all kinds modelled in plaster are constantly employed in the interior of rooms and buildings. On the exterior we constantly find imi- tations of similar architectural features proper to stone executed in plaster and simulating stone ; a short-sighted practice which cannot be commended, and which has only cheapness and convenience in its favour. There... can be no question of the fact that the features thus executed G A M 162 REXAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE.
nevei* equal those done in stone in their effectiveness, and are far more liable to decay.
Design in Renaissance buildings may be said to be directed towards producing a telling result by the effect of the buildings taken as a whole, rather than by the intricacy or the beauty of individual parts ; and herein lies one of the great contrasts between Renaissance and Gothic architec- ture. A Renaissance building which fails to produce an impression as a whole is i-arely felt to be successful.
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