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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1849. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chiefly negative defects; it simply wants that life and vigour which distinguish a native from an imitative style. Consequently a foreign architect, or a native who had imbibed the foreign spirit, had no such impediments and prejudices to contend with in Spain as in Italy; he might rear unmolested the stately front of Burgos, while in Italy he must have contented himself with the inanities of Orvieto and Sienna, unless his individual genius had sufficient creative power to produce a Milan. CHAPTER VII. OF THE DECAY OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. It was the first Tudor monarch of England, the first whose blood was traced only by an indirect and illegitimate source from the line of her ancient rulers, and whose conquest moreover marks the overthrow of the old feudal power, and the final substitution of the new influence of the plotting head and the cunning tongue, for the old power of the bold heart and the strong arm; it was this prince, whose reign, and that of others like him, forms such an epoch in constitutional and political history, who reared, as the intended sepulchre of his race, the most gorgeous, though far from the most beautiful, creation of Northern art that England, perhaps that the world, had ever seen, and overshadowed the older resting-place of the Confessor, by the new magnificence of the shrine that was to canopy the sepulchres of the new imperial race. None but a very prejudiced eye can discern in the Chapel of Henry VII. only a debased and corrupted structure, completely repugnant to the principles of Gothic building; still its lavish and almost fantastic ornaments, the labyrinthal recesses of its outer walls, the mighty turrets of its aisles and the weak pinnacles of its clerestory, and above all its huge pendants, trifling with every law alike of rea...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150644696
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 174
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150644699
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 322 gr

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