On The Rise And Progress Of The Fine Arts PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... fluences of a utile nature, which ever exists in a young and vigorous state. In our principal cities we have many fine churches, but in point of size and splendor, they bear no comparison to those of the old world. Our monuments, too, arc few, and the chief of them have been raised by patriotism to the memory of some eventful struggle for liberty during the War of Independence, or in honor of some beloved patriot, whose talents and virtues adorn the pages of our past history. chapter V. Domestic Architecture of the Egyptians--The Labyrinth--Palaces-Houses of Thebes--Palace of Solomon--Phoenician Architects--Sidon--Its Colonies--Tyre--Domestic Architecture of the Hindoos--Of the Chinese--Police Regulations--Domestic Architecture of the Romans--Theatre of Marcus Scaurus--Of Curio--Hadrian's Villa--Comparison between Greek and Roman Architecture--Rebuilding of Rome by Nero--Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages--Its Character--Early Architecture of Britain--Improvements by the Romans--Agricola's Chain of Forts--Baronial Castles--Introduction of the Italian Style--The Alhambra in Spain--Domestic Architecture of the United States--Primitive Cabins of Emigrants--Buildings of the present Period. Domestic Architecture, the most important part of the art, yet the most neglected so far as the application of rules and the taste for decoration are concerned, comprehends dwellings of every kind from the splendid palace to the rude hut of the savage; in fact all edifices other than those devoted to religious purposes. We have already traced the progress of building from man's first emergence from caves, till he began to rear edifices according to architectural rules and proportions. We will now take a brief view of this branch of the art as it...