The Ecclesiologist - 11 Author:Cambridge Camden Society Volume: 11 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Original Publisher: Cambridge Camden Society Subjects: Church architecture Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get ... more »free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: We should do both Mr. Sharpe and his subject injustice by a mere review of his pages taken singly; with this acknowledgment therefore of the completion of his work, we propose to defer our fuller review of it till we can notice it in comparison with Mr. E. A. Freeman's studies, and Messrs. Brandon's analysis of architecture. We are sorry to see that Mr. Sharpe ignores throughout his introductory matter Foreign architecture. We think it is impossible to give a just opinion of the flowing styles, without a conspectus of that Flamboyant tracery into which it was rapidly rushing had it not been brought to a premature stop by the invention of Perpendicular. ART AND POETRY. Art and Poetry, being thoughts towards nature. Conducted principally by Artists. 8vo., 4 nos. London : Dickinson, 1850. We must break through the ordinary etiquette of reviewing to notice a young contemporary, principally, as its title denotes, the work of artists. Its conductors have embarked in a search after the true and beautiful, which has led them to a just appreciation of the unearthly charms of early Christian art. Indeed gossip states that they glory in the appellation of Prae-Raphael-brethren. With much that is crude, because it is youthful, in their writing there is an element of truth and of talent to which we look in future days for bright results. The poetry partakes of the same mixed character. We would impress upon its writers that they have enough of the vivida vis to justify them in not shocking the traditionary rules of their art. ...« less