A kingsley porter beyond architecture pptx

[...]... After and Paper Architecture " Architecture, "The Gothic Way"; Art a French Gothic and the and Archaeology } Middle Age "; the ; Italian Renaissance"; The American Maga" zine of Art, The Art of Giotto " and the " Art Yale Review (God help the editor I), and the General." I roll with unction the names of these orthodox sponsors in baptism, for I have a presentiment that this wayward and unconventional... PAPER ARCHITECTURE 151 ART AND THE GENERAL 167 ILLUSTRATIONS Church at Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania ing by E Donald Flight into Egypt, Parma Robb Draw- by Benedetto Baptistery of 16 , Cathedral at Bourges 30 Portal of the Cathedral at Senlis Flying Buttresses of the Cathedral at J&eims Sassetta, Mystic Marriage of St Chantilly Mans Bernardo Daddi, Vision of St Haven of S , 43 56 Francis, Portal of the Cathedral... touchstone of art THE If we is intellectuality consider the evolution of man from the savage beast, we shall see that the art which he produces possesses permanent artistic value in measure as, in the progress from brutality, man achieves intellectuality and reAnimals have no flects this in his handicraft As man art has evolved, he has gradually attained the mentality necessary for artistic It is true that the... find detail that is made mechanically, thoughtlessly, the work, not of an perfunctorily, artist but of a materialist, and the larger we have features of the design are nearly certain to be permeated by the same qualities The true artist may delight in the broad [5] effect; he BEYOND ARCHITECTURE may take pleasure in producing that effect in be satisfied simple materials, but he can never this lack of.. .BEYOND ARCHITECTURE BY A KINGSLEY PORTER BOSTON MARSHALL JONES COMPANY MDCCCCXVm COPYRIGHT, 1918 BY MARSHALL JONES COMPANY All rights mencd PRINTED BY THE UNIVERSITY PR18S, CAMBRIDGE, U 9 A, CONTENTS PAWS PRESCRIPT ix AGAINST ROMAN ARCHITECTURE ART OF THE MIDDLE AGE GOTHIC ART, THE i WAR AND AFTER THE GOTHIC WAY 16 56 66 FRENCH GOTHIC AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE THE ART OF GIOTTO 101 120 PAPER... Portal of the Cathedral at Le Atrium PAGE Frontispiece 67 ., 80 Dominic, New142 Ambrogio at Milan i6z PRESCRIPT in heaval, MISBORN this time of cosmic upvolume appears an ina conspicuous baby of peace, whose feeble wail, notwithstanding the unreasoning vastness of parental ambitions, is likely to sound more than ever unavailingly amid the shrapnel and groans of a great war Before abandoning it upon the... content a curious parallelism between the life of Imperial art, the literature and the Rome I experience the same sensation of in- There is expressible weariness in studying Roman architecture and in reading of Roman banquets, as, to cite one example among many, the Satyricon of Petronius [6] What in a bore these AGAINST ROMAN ARCHITECTURE over-eating and over-drinkhave been! useless the mag- feasts,... decade ago, I came to the rather impulsive conclusion that the terial thoughtless admiration and imitation of the Roman style was producing a deleterious effect upon contemporary American art In BEYOND ARCHITECTURE writing my Medi&val Architecture I felt it almost a duty to do what I could to call attention to the prosaic character of the Roman style The difference of opinion between fessor Hamlin and... Philosophers May thou do the same [9] BEYOND ARCHITECTURE c Thanks to Mercury, I have built this palace of mine in which we now are as you know, it was a house, but now it is imposing as a ; temple; it has four drawing-rooms, twenty bed-chambers, two marble porticoes, a tower above in which I myself sleep, apartments for my wife, an excellent porter' s lodge and slave able to quarters accommodate a thousand... which redeemed a design that, only because of our lack of knowledge, seems lifeless and banal? Future investigations may possibly show that Roman architecture was not as dull as it of beauty, now I fear, however, that this is exceedingly unlikely The frescos of Pompeii quickly dispel any illusion that the Romans appears possessed a sense of colour An abundance of Roman architectural detail has come down . at Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. Draw- PAGE ing by E. Donald Robb Frontispiece Flight into Egypt, by Benedetto. Baptistery of Parma . , 16 Cathedral at Bourges 30 Portal of the Cathedral at Senlis . 43 Flying Buttresses of the Cathedral at J&eims , 56 Sassetta, Mystic Marriage of St. Francis, Chantilly . 67 Portal of. BEYOND ARCHITECTURE BY A. KINGSLEY PORTER BOSTON MARSHALL JONES COMPANY MDCCCCXVm COPYRIGHT, 1918 BY MARSHALL JONES COMPANY All rights mencd PRINTED BY THE UNIVERSITY PR18S, CAMBRIDGE, U. 9. A, CONTENTS PAWS PRESCRIPT ix AGAINST ROMAN ARCHITECTURE i ART OF THE MIDDLE AGE 16 GOTHIC ART, THE WAR AND AFTER 56 THE GOTHIC WAY 66 FRENCH GOTHIC AND THE ITALIAN RENAIS- SANCE . 101 THE ART. the PRESCRIPT Middle Age "; the Journal of the American Institute of Architects, " Gothic Art, the War and After " and " Paper Architecture " ; Architecture, "The Gothic Way"; Art and Archaeology } a French Gothic and the Italian Renaissance"; The American Maga- zine of Art, " The Art of Giotto " and the Yale Review (God help the editor I), " Art and the General." I