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[...] UR readers are aware that the competition for this Church called forth forty-six antagonists, out of whom Mr. Burges, Mr. Street, and Mr. Bodley were selected for the three promised prizes, and Mr. Slater was complimented with a fourth and extra prize. Five more architects (or partnerships) [...]
[...] the advantage of Professor Willis's able advocacy, come to the same conclusion. Mr. Burges, in selecting his motif, has proposed to himself a task of peculiar delicacy, which only those who have made me diaeval Church architecture a matter of specific study can duly ap [...]
[...] Church dignified to concentrate his expression of dignity in one effect, towards which it behoved him to design his j. struc ture. This one effect Mr. Burges has sought in a feature of his [...]
[...] on which, during the progress of construction, rests the whole onus (in its most literal sense) of the security to life and limb of the ponderous monster overhead. With even Mr. Burges's comparatively small dimensions, with his width broken up between nave and aisles, a stone groin to resist earthquakes [...]
[...] ticularly we should counsel a central fleche. This is the more de sirable, since a campanile will be, in all probability, for ever im ossible, as–so we gather—Mr. Burges himself considers, while indicating, pour firer les idées, how, if he had one, he would treat it. [...]
[...] treat it. Mr. Street's church offers singular points of difference to that of Mr. Burges. In one respect its superiority is manifest —viz., in beauty of drawings. With the exception of two perspectives, the designs which carried off the first prize [...]
[...] and abnormal building for which Mr. Street was competing, was expected and indicated. The ground-plan, like that of Mr. Burges, is cruciform and apsidal, and the whole area which the structure is designed to cover is more extensive than that of the first prizeman. A rough measurement which we [...]
[...] that of the first prizeman. A rough measurement which we were enabled to make indicates that the external length of Mr. Burges's church is about 162 feet, that of Mr. Street 2co—the internal length respectively 150 and 170. The internal breadth of Mr. Burges's is 55—that of Mr. Street (why, we shall here [...]
[...] ture of the latter, and not of the former prizeman. The internal height of each is 66 feet—that of Mr. Street's church, externally, 90 feet—of Mr. Burges's 76—while in Mr. Street's church the projection of the transepts is much longer than with Mr. Burges. [...]
[...] designs. It is a dignified cruciform pile, without being cathe dralesque and impossibly huge. At the same time, it falls short of Mr. Burges, in wanting the triforium and the eastern circumambient aisle. Its characteristic merit resides in a delicate proportion of parts, and an elegance of moulding and [...]
[...] More labour and research have been ex pended on the early descent of the Habs burgs, than on that of any other house that ever reigned in Europe, which may partly be accounted for by the very prominent share [...]
[...] seventeenth century. The magnificent library of the monastery of Klosterneu burg is rich with some twenty-five thou sand volumes and four hundred manu scripts of rare and curious works, and [...]
[...] of the family who is clearly designated in the old records as Count of Habs burg. The descendants of this Werner married, increased, murdered, or were murdered, fought, robbed, and waxed rich [...]
[...] Rudolf, younger brother of Count Albert the Fourth, fixed his residence at Lauffen burg, and became founder of the line of Habsburg-Lauffenburg, from which are de [...]
[...] burg, and to have managed to live on his property at Windisch, the site of the old [...]
[...] Edward the Fourth, in which it appears that Geffery or Godfrey, Count of Habs burg, having been reduced by the charac teristic rapacity of his cousin Rudolf, King of the Romans, to the extreme depths of [...]
[...] Heraldisches Handbuch appear to support him. The member of the English Habs burgs best known to fame is Henry Field ing, the novelist. Albert the Fourth, Count of Habsburg, [...]
[...] HE world has lately been enriched by a large mass of con troversial literature in depreciation of Mr. Burges's design for the completion of St. Paul's. The Times gave the signal by pub lishing in a single day a protest from four dissentient members of [...]
[...] § Mr. Fergusson, Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, Mr. Oldfield, and Mr. Gambier Parry, is partly composed of a recital of facts, and partly of criticisms upon Mr. Burges's design based on the facts so recited. They ..., the pledge which was given by the Executive Committee when it took office, that it would scrupu [...]
[...] as we believe it admits of a direct contradiction, we quote it to show how reckless men can become when they betake themselves to protesting:-" That the gentlemen selected by Mr. Burges to execute his figure subjects, and named to the Fine Arts Committee, instead of being the most eminent [...]
[...] being converted into a mass-house.” But, considering that the four protesters have joined an outcry because they do not think that Mr. Burges sufficiently follows the architecture and decora tion of the best Italian architects of the sixteenth century, we are rather puzzled to find the grounds of Professor Donaldson's [...]
[...] and ceilings “should be bedizened with the sensuous allurements of the harlot.” What sensuous allurements? The gallant four, as we have seen, are very wroth because Mr. Burges proposed to coat the walls with white Silician marble; is this the }. Sensuous allurements? But it seems that these walls and ceilings are not [...]
[...] “St. Vincent de Paul at Paris.” But St. Peter's and St. Vincent de Paul are Popish mass-houses both, and yet Professor Donaldson has the effrontery to invite Mr. Burges to borrow their harlot allurements for the bedizenment of our noble Protestant cathedral. We cannot pretend to follow our critic through the somewhat [...]
[...] not at all deny the truth of this proposition; we only very humbl add that the architect who perpetrated this corruption was i. not Burges, but Wren. We must do the justice he deserves to the writer of the leading article in the Times, when we say that he does [...]
[...] into mythical history, he pronounces that the Executive Committee of St. Paul's has been witnessing a two years’ “continual and inevitable struggle” between Mr. Burges and its Fine Arts Committee: the fact having been, as we have heard rumoured, that the Committee in question has met exactly three times, having [...]
[...] Committee: the fact having been, as we have heard rumoured, that the Committee in question has met exactly three times, having on the first occasion sat for two minutes, and given Mr. Burges unrestricted instructions to proceed, on which he constructed his model of the nave decorations, and on the second—while adjourning [...]
[...] hysterics, indulges in a bold, rollicking swing of art criticism which might have been worth analysing if his datum had not unluckily been that Mr. Burges intended to dispense with the aid of artists of acknowledged fame. . As this, however, happens to be just not the case, we fear that its criticism, with the [...]
[...] model of that at Salisbury, so carefully restored, with its round of quaint scripture histories, by Mr. Burges. It is now, alas ! a mere wreck, for Edward the Third turned it over to the House of Commons, and in [...]
[...] The tomb of Henry the Third in the Confessor's chapel has been most carefully described by Mr. Burges. For this tomb Edward the First, with filial piety, brought jasper from the Holy Land. Master William [...]
[...] one. Both tombs are mosaic, of Italian work. The three recesses in the first tomb probably, says Mr. Burges, once held rich reliquaries protected by a metal grille. The sceptre in each hand, the [...]
[...] loved Queen Philippa to rest by her side. The face of the brave and noble queen's effigy is, says Mr. Burges, the earliest attempt at realistic portraiture in the abbey. Thirty figures of her Hainault [...]
[...] that pugnacious Florentine, Torrigiano, who also, with coarser art, designed the altar. The monument, says Mr. Burges, is pure Italian Renaissance, very delicate and beautiful, and must have been executed [...]
[...] Seventh's chapel are wood covered with brass plates, which have been, says Mr. Burges, richly gilt. One single lock-plate alone has escaped the hands of antiquaries and thieves. The badges in the perforated [...]
[...] saints out of thirty-two remain in their niches. - Mr. Burges mentions a curious fact not to be forgotten about this royal chapel. Some years ago, when the aisle vaults were [...]
[...] So far as we can pierce the fog, the condition under which the Committee met seems to have been that the Chapter, in face of the well-nursed outcry against Mr. Burges's design, passed a reso lution in favour of postponing the active commencement of the work of decoration, in the expediency of which resolu [...]
[...] lution in favour of postponing the active commencement of the work of decoration, in the expediency of which resolu tion we believe that not only Mr. Burges's friends, but that gentleman himself, cheerfully acquiesced. With this postpone ment of the substantive work went also one of an experimental [...]
[...] ment of the substantive work went also one of an experimental and temporary colouring of the East end. The Chapter came to a third resolution—that the agreement under which Mr. Burges and Mr. Penrose had been artificially yoked together in the undertaking ought to be rescinded, as it was “found to be highly inconvenient [...]
[...] natural shortness of memory, ought to have been warned by past experience to guard against. It must not be forgotten that, in the heat of the controversy which raged round Mr. Burges's models, imputations were directly aimed at him for wilfully neglecting, or rather disobeying, the instructions which he had received from his [...]
[...] once have honourably acquitted the architect from injurious im putations, and have enabled the Committee with self-respect to accept those preliminary drawings which it still holds Mr. Burges bound to complete. We should be much surprised if the Executive Committee, on calmer reflection, saw reason for much self-satisfac [...]
[...] bound to complete. We should be much surprised if the Executive Committee, on calmer reflection, saw reason for much self-satisfac tion. It had deliberately selected Mr. Burges as its architect; it had sustained him against turbulent, bitter, and unreasoning oppo sition; it has not even now cancelled his appointment as its archi [...]
[...] the Committee after all that had taken place, and in face of the covenanted cessation of active decoration. would be tantamount to a penal dismissal of Mr. Burges. Yet the Committee by a large majority closed with the latter alternative. We are willing to believe that all who voted for the proposal could not have appre [...]
[...] enhanced their claim on popular confidence by their late day's work. All that has been done has been simply negative; the decorations have been suspended, and Mr. Burges has been con structively dismissed. Sanguine must the man be who antici pates the possibility of resumption, even upon a plan as tempting [...]
[...] authorities, taught as they would be by the lessons of the last two years, in undertaking its accomplishment. We could, if it were worth while, prove that Mr. Burges has never received fair play, and, as nothing reproduces itself like injustice, the ill-treatment to which Mr. Burges has been subjected will for a long time to come [...]
[...] is *: charming; and the scene where she “tries the spell” with Allie or Alison Burges, is full of humour and careful drawing. But we soon have indications, even in these early pages, of the future uncomfortable development, which [...]
[...] proved unfortunate to the Confederate troops under General Pemberton, Vicks burg found itself completely surrounded by the Federal army. The force that had been interposed between the stronghold of [...]
[...] enemies. Austria, greedy for her old ter ritory, was to have Silesia, Saxony, Magde burg, and Halle; the Swedes Pomerania, Russia the Königsberg Memel country, and France the Wesel Cleve region. [...]
[...] the Saale, and cut off the Duke of Bruns wick from his distant supplies at Naum burg. Prince Louis, who was guarding the Saale, by his rashness in advancing on Lannes, left the Saale open to the [...]
[...] rambling army and Saxony. The duke at last roused, advanced to recover Naum burg, and engaged Davoust and his divi sion of thirty-six thousand men. The two armies met in a thick mist in the village [...]
[...] also overthrown by Bernadotte at Halle. Prince Hohenlohe, retreating from Magde burg with fifty thousand men, escaped for the time, but soon after laid down his arms on the heights of Prenzlow. Blucher [...]
[...] threw open its gates to the French. Span dau, Stettin, Custrin, Hameln, Magde burg, made no resistance. Eleven days after the battle of Jena Napoleon entered Berlin. He proved himself a harsh and [...]
[...] divisions with an interval of some days, resulting on the second occasion in an increased majority, the Executive Committee, out of a list of well-known architects, selected Mr. Burges for the work. Thereupon the Lord Mayor and his companions, all of them members of that Executive Committee, flew to the Tºnes, [...]
[...] may succeed in enlisting the valuable support of the “Large Subscriber” who bubbles over in Thursday's Times at the idea that Mr. Burges was averse to the Byzantine treatment of the work as too akin to Gothic, but proposed to carry out the decora tions in “cinque cento,” in profound ignorance that “cinque [...]
[...] specific issue of “mediaevalist” and “classical,” or “anti mediaevalist,” and that upon the mediaevalists scoring a majority of one (names being given on both sides), Mr. Burges in that character was subsequently elected, as a direct antagonist of Wren. No doubt these charges so manipulated seemed to involve much un [...]
[...] justify the threatened appeal to the subscribers. But the Times of Wednesday contained letters placing the matter in a very different light—from the Dean of St. Paul's, covering one by Mr. Burges, from Mr. Longman and Mr. Oldfield, members of the Committee who had originally voted against Mr. Burges, and from Mr. [...]
[...] who had originally voted against Mr. Burges, and from Mr. Gilbert Scott, speaking with the authority of his great experience in favour of Mr. Burges's peculiar capacities. From these communications we gather that the quintet had simply been drawing upon a wealth of imagination which we had fancied had [...]
[...] genius, vigour, and varied accomplishments,” in an exhaustive election out of five architects of established position, by a vote of nine to seven, which was incorrectly, and to Mr. Burges's dis advantage, scheduled in that letter, where, as we understand, two votes were reported as having been given which did not appear, [...]
[...] date, and, as rumour will have it, on the motion of the Lord Mayor, the former decision was revised, with the result that Mr. Burges was continued in his place by nine to six. On the first occasion proxies were received, but not on the second, other wise the numbers would have stood eleven and six. Mr. Burges's [...]
[...] manner. More important, however, is the letter of Mr. Longman and Mr. Oldfield, in which, after explaining that one of them had once and the other twice voted against Mr. Burges, they join in “loyally” accepting his appointment, in co-operating in the pre liminary arrangements with him, and in anticipating success for [...]
[...] of subscribers. We own, however, that we are far more interested in the broader question of the wisdom in itself of the choice which the Committee has made. No doubt Mr. Burges has chiefly, though not exclusively, worked in Gothic. But, behind the specialities of style which mark his predilections, the characteristics [...]
[...] might, for instance, fall under the ken of the “Large Subscriber" to whom we have already referred, who splutters out defiance at Mr. Burges because, having on a former occasion received a commission from the Committee to prepare a scheme for the “ iconographic” treatment of the interior, and a treatment in [...]
[...] T H E Creditors of Richard Burges, late of Quorndon, in the County of Leicester, Gentleman, dec asd, are defired to give an Account of their reſpećtive De [...]
[...] of Quorndon, in the County of Leicester, Gentleman, dec asd, are defired to give an Account of their reſpećtive De mans i Mr. Adam Burges, Mercer, in Loughborough ; or to Mr. Kırklard, Attorney at Law, m Loughborough. [...]
[...] [Price 2 s. 6 d. few’d] (Illustrated with a new and accurate Map of Saxony, Prander burg, Sileſia, Bohemia, &c. finely coloured) EMO IRS of FR E DE R I C K III. King of P R U S S I A, &c. [...]
[...] of criticism. We should be obliged to Mr. Oldfield for the sugges tion of a word which could more succinctly describe sketches of this kind than “rough.” The degree of trouble which Mr. Burges's employé took about them is nothing to the question, subject as they were to unlimited alteration in every particular. According to [...]
[...] “rough draft” if it were printed with the same type and on the same paper as the final form. - But the statement that in submitting these sketches Mr. Burges named to the Committee the artists he intended to employ, is a representation which neither the architect nor his employers can [...]
[...] given in the Times of Friday, which contains the replies of the majority of the Executive Committee to the protest, and of Mr. Burges to Mr. Oldfield. Mr. Burges named certain gentlemen of that peculiarrankin the artistic hierarchy which made it possible for him profitably to consult them at the “rough” stage, as he could not have [...]
[...] affair subsequent to the general *: of the design. Mr. Oldfield's second point, “that neither then nor at any other time did Mr. Burges recommend to the Fine Arts Com mittee any artist who could, however laxly, be entitled ‘eminent,' or said to have specially studied the Italian masters of the sixteenth [...]
[...] What took place at the second meeting we have just explained; and as the Fine Arts Committee on its third assembling condemned Mr. Burges by a majority of one without any formal examination of the details of his scheme, it may easily be understood that he had no chance of recommending anything. Mr. Oldfield recurs to [...]
[...] of the complete work—“imaginary,” and we adhere to the word. It was the guess of the author of a description of Mr. Burges's models which appeared a few weeks since. . The descriptive portion of that paſſphlet deserves great praise for its fulness and its accuracy, but the paragraph at the close on the [...]
[...] “estimated cost” was the product of calculations made by the writer on his own responsibility, and without the authority either of the Committee or of Mr. Burges, who was then out of Eng land, and who has in his letter to the Times disclaimed the surmise. [...]
[...] the four remonstrants, and we have therefore passed over the assertion which occurs early in his letter—“Upon the general merits of Mr. Burges's design I shall say nothing, as my three colleagues and myself have advisedly abstained from addressing to the public, either openly or anonymously, arguments which it was [...]
[...] statements contained in the protest are not arguments, but it asses our reasoning powers to understand how—as Mr. Oldfield implies—silence upon the general merits of Mr. Burges's design [...]
[...] vulgar,” “the debasement of art, the corruption of public taste, and the discredit of the country,” appear to us to be very like saying something “upon the general merits of Mr. Burges's design.” Having dealt with his assertions, we should gladly have parted from Mr. Oldfield in good fellowship, and attributed the misstate [...]
[...] MR BURGES has done well in sending his models for the 1. internal completion and decoration of St. Paul's to the Royal Academy, for he has in this way most effectually disposed [...]
[...] -Burges took the second and the bolder course. The critics who manipulate well-used phrases about delicate gradations, half tints, aërial effects, and so forth, conveniently forget #.condition to which [...]
[...] er pearls and sparkling train for the service of the drawing-room. We claim the credit of this method of procedure for Mr. Burges, who attaches peculiar importance to the use of decorative processes which shall offer the greatest resistance to the deleterious atmosphere of London, and also be most easily cleaned. Glass [...]
[...] work of mechanical safety. The whole style of the decorative work shown on the model (in which, as the Academy Catalogue tells us, Mr. Burges has been seconded by Mr. Lonsdale) is conscientiously Italian. In this respect it loyally carries out the intention of *F. the great work of the architect whose F. of [...]
[...] Italian artists, and Church art in Italy was rapidly degenerating into the rococo extravagances of the “Jesuit” school. If Mr. Burges's design is, however, to be rejected in order that St. Paul's may become on a much larger scale the duplicate of the gaudy fanes which Loyola's ubiquitous Society produced in the earlier [...]
[...] rate use of bronze panels in relief round the ground story of the apse and in places where space is to be reserved for special monu ments. As to the spandrels of the arches, Mr. Burges proposes to enrich their present plain surfaces by an ornamentation partly sunk and partly in relief, comprising heads in circular panels. [...]
[...] to which we only refer as showing how religiously the new architecthasrespected the ensembleofhis famous predecessor's church. One of the cleverest of Mr. Burges's proposals is that of the enrich ment which he intends to apply to the “attic story” between the ier arches and the clerestory window, of which the main [...]
[...] of standing figures in ceramic ware. Those of the nave are repre sented as white upon a blueground, reminding us on a vast scale of Wedgwood ware, while Mr. Burges proposes, for the sake of º richness, to introduce varied colour into the choir panels. We believe that the architect found much difficulty in coming to a [...]
[...] and converging at the apex. Even a scrupulous man might have been tempted to sweep away these accessories in hopes of a great result; but Mr. Burges has found it possible to º ple successfully with the situation. It was indispensable to end brightness and splendour to this most important, conspicuous [...]
[...] different from that which the artists of the Jesuit school sought to produce with their voluptuous and sprawling figures. ritics may very º; argue that Mr. Burges's design is not perfect, but this is merely to say that its author is human. Im provements and modifications will be certain to suggest themselves [...]
