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Ohap. II.
CIYIL ARCHITEOTUEE.
" 03
Tn all countries tlie specimens of domestic art are, frorn obvious
causes, more liable to alteration and destruction than works of a more
monumental class. Makiug every allowance for this, still Germany
seems more deficient than the neighhouring countries in domestic
architecture in the pointed style, and one can hardly avoid the con-
viction that this form was never thoroughly adopted hy tlie people of
this country, and it consequently never had much hold on their feel-
ings or taste, and died out early, leaving only some wonderful speci-
mens of masonic skill in the more monumental huildings, hut very
few evidences of true art or of sound knowledge of tlie true prin-
ciples of architectural effect.
621.
Bay Window from St. Sebald, Nuremberg.
CIYIL ARCHITEOTUEE.
" 03
Tn all countries tlie specimens of domestic art are, frorn obvious
causes, more liable to alteration and destruction than works of a more
monumental class. Makiug every allowance for this, still Germany
seems more deficient than the neighhouring countries in domestic
architecture in the pointed style, and one can hardly avoid the con-
viction that this form was never thoroughly adopted hy tlie people of
this country, and it consequently never had much hold on their feel-
ings or taste, and died out early, leaving only some wonderful speci-
mens of masonic skill in the more monumental huildings, hut very
few evidences of true art or of sound knowledge of tlie true prin-
ciples of architectural effect.
621.
Bay Window from St. Sebald, Nuremberg.