ABSOLUTE BEAUTY AND RELATIVE BEAUTY IN ARCHITECTURE : On the Architectural Beauty in Quatremere de Quincy' Treatise III

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  • 建築における絶対美と相対美 : カトルメール・カンシーの建築美論についてIII
  • カトルメール・ド・カンシーの建築美論について-3-建築における絶対美と相対美
  • カトルメール ド カンシー ノ ケンチク ビロン ニ ツイテ 3 ケンチク ニ

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In this third paper about Quatremere de Quincy's treatise on the architectural beauty, I treat of the question whether the architectural beauty belongs to the absolute beauty or the relative beauty. Unlike Diderot, Quatremere de Quincy thinks that the relative beauty is more difficult to grasp than the absolute beauty, because the former is concerned with the highest faculty "Gout" of the human soul. In conclusion, I guess that the reason of the disapperance of the article "Beau" in the "Dictionnaire historique d'architecture (1832)" is due to this superiority of the relative beauty founded on his Romantic thought.

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