Bernini is Dead?: Architecture and the Social Purpose |
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... hand stone 55 now fallen with its lintel lying athwart the altar stone . This was the central of five trilithons of which the left - hand ones 51/52 and 53/54 are essentially intact . Of the right ones one pair and the lintel are frag ...
... hand stone 55 now fallen with its lintel lying athwart the altar stone . This was the central of five trilithons of which the left - hand ones 51/52 and 53/54 are essentially intact . Of the right ones one pair and the lintel are frag ...
Page 322
... hand , ritual , this cosmos for which man was beholden to none but himself was his proudest creation , the monument of his supreme self confidence . On the other it was the measure of human frailty , of human inadequacy to support a ...
... hand , ritual , this cosmos for which man was beholden to none but himself was his proudest creation , the monument of his supreme self confidence . On the other it was the measure of human frailty , of human inadequacy to support a ...
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... hand by personal architects . It is too bad , but it is hard to see a road back , and the problem is no doubt how to ... hands . To the hands of those who erect buildings , produce building materials , manufacturing them from raw ...
... hand by personal architects . It is too bad , but it is hard to see a road back , and the problem is no doubt how to ... hands . To the hands of those who erect buildings , produce building materials , manufacturing them from raw ...
Contents
Chapter Three ARCHITECTURAL TRAVEL WITH PARTICULAR | 35 |
Chapter Six THE ARCHITECTURE OF STONE | 151 |
English Features | 417 |
Copyright | |
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The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That ... Jake Morrissey,J. P. Morrissey No preview available - 2005 |