Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)
Online ISSN : 1881-8161
Print ISSN : 1340-4210
ISSN-L : 1340-4210
A STUDY ON GOTTFRIED SEMPER'S VIEW OF POLYCHROMY
Masato KAWAMUKAI
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2000 Volume 65 Issue 530 Pages 235-242

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This paper deals with Gottfried Senper's view of polychrony nainly in his two writings, "PreliMinary Reearks on Polycbroae Architecture and Sculpture in Antiquitf (1834) and "The Four Elesents of Architec lure"(1851), fFOB two aspects of the political and artistic "progran" and the "beauty (artistic expression)". Senper believed that his contemporaries of art and industry could learn something of fundaiental iiportance to all productivity of good quality frou "old teachers", the Greeks. Senper asserted aany tines that white Barbie with its noble grain and crystalline transparency, dressed with "ename coloring", showed those Bost perfect finish treataents in their Greek tenples, that his conteaporaries should endeavor to master.
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