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...17th Century London society, Washington, D.C. was not yet even a gleam in Architect L'Enfant's eye. This week Washington's National Gallery proudly exhibited "its first full-length portrait from Van Dyck's English period." The portrait, a sparkling evocation of the foppish Duc de Guise, was a New Year's gift from New York Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. That made the 1,019th painting the National Gallery has been given since it opened its doors in 1941 (it has only found it necessary to buy one painting in that time). It also...
Years later John went to work for his father as an apprentice. John admits that his father "is not a good teacher," but is eternally grateful to him for introducing him to Discourses on Architecture by the 19th-Century French theorist Viollet-le-Duc...
John quotes a passage from Viollet-le-Duc which well describes Frank Lloyd Wright's ambition, and to a considerable extent, his achievement. Wrote Viollet-le-Duc: "The leaf of a shrub, a flower, an insect-all have style; because they grow, are developed, and maintain their existence according to laws essentially logical. We can subtract nothing from a flower, for each part of its organism expresses a function. . . . Proceed as nature does in her works, and you will be able to invest with style all that your brain conceives...
...France, a detailed study of Chartres was made by the late great 19th-Century architectural historian, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, whose Dictionary of French is a classic. Viollet-le-Duc made plaster casts of some of the Cathedral's lyrical sculpture. But the surest source of data are French Government records, if they are intact. The Third Republic maintained bureaus which filed detailed descriptions of every important historic building in the country. There was also for Chartres a state-supported architect in residence, whose office knew every stone of the building...
...spite of all France's new Government did to appease the conquerors, dark days lay ahead. A separatist movement appeared in Brittany, perhaps to be followed by other such movements by the Catalans, Basques, Corsicans, what not. In Switzerland the Duc de Guise, Bourbon pretender, was scheming to get the French Throne for his son, the Comte de Paris. Both Italy and Germany warned that the ''political bill of reckoning" had not yet been paid, would be dictated by "historic realism." France, said the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, "will not find her place on an equal basis with...