Produced by Laura Natal Rodriguez and Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (online soon in an extended version,also linking to free sources for education worldwide ... MOOC's, educational materials,...) Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.)
AUTHOR OF "THE ART AND GENIUS OF TINTORET," "AN ESSAY ON THE FUTURE OF POETRY," AND OTHER WORKS
[Summary. Nature of the relation between the system of Art-types, or the collective totality of ideal world-presentments, and their objective realization in independent works of art. Nature of the process in the evolution of the specific arts themselves, and of the aspects identical in all. The origins of art. Grace, Charm, and severe or agreeable Style]
[The principle of differentiation as determined by the sensuous aspect of the subject-matter, and the relation thereto of the human senses of Sight, Hearing, and intellectual Conception. Insufficiency of such a principle of classification. Alternative principle discussed and illustrated of more concrete nature, in which the evolution of truth as the reality of the Idea itself is presented]
[Of the beginnings of human art, and that of building in particular. Of the nature of the subordinate classification of architecture viewed as symbolic, classical and romantic]
1. Works of architecture erected in order to unite peoples
2. Works of architecture intermediate between the arts of building and sculpture
(_a_) The influence of the generative activity of Nature on the form of buildings
(_b_) Further modification of similar conceptions in the obelisks of Egypt and other examples
(_c_) Temple enclosures, labyrinths, etc.
3. The transition from self-substantive architecture to the classical type
(_a_) The nature of subterranean dwellings
(_b_) Construction raised to house the dead in Egypt and elsewhere. The Pyramids
(_c_) Buildings that directly subserve a purpose as the point of transition to the classical type. The ordinary dwelling. The environment of the sculptured image. The adoption of the principle of expediency. The abstraction of parts of a building from the organic form, _e.g._, in the column
1. The general character of classical architecture
(_b_) The nature of the fitness or power of adaptation of such a structure to such an end