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Our Architectural Chapter.
the Hanvv"ell Schools ^ for which they claimed damages . The cask ended not only favourably to Bro . Baukes , but as a professional acquittal and a complete justification of all that he had done . The new Architectural Union building in Conduit-street , Bondstreet , is fast approaching completion , and mil be fim by the
25 th of Mkrch next . The total cost will be MX 5 3 000 3 which has been raised by shares issued under the limited liability act . The building has a fine and Imposing elevation . It is to be used as a sort of centre for all the architectural and arehseological societies in the metropolis . There will also be room for some of the dilettante associations , should they desire to avail themselves of it The contract is taken by Messrs . Hack and Son , and Mr . Edmeston is , we believe ,
the architect . The scheme for the Great Exhibition of 1861 is still In enibryo but the Society of Arts have given the project their sanction , and there is little doubt of its ultimate success . The proposition to bring to this country , and exhibit at the same time and in the same building the celebrated Campagna Museum , now at Rome , is a good idea . This femed collection is valued at , £ 250 , 000 . It contains the best of all the buried treasures of Italian art that have u turned up within the last half century . Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds appears , it is true , a somewhat large sum for one collection ; but if we want u high v art , we must pay for it . Besides , imagine the fortune the Birmingham manufacturers will make by copying the originals in the base bronze of Warwickshire' ! .
ARCHITECTURAL MEETINGS . The usual fortnightly meeting of the Boyal Institute of British Architects was held on Monday , at 16 , Grosvenor-street , Mr . Henry Ashton , Y . P ., in the chair . The paper read was by Mr . Bonomi , and had reference to the Greek canon of proportion , as laid down by Yitruvius . The lecture was illustrated by digrams of the human form , the size of life ; and , also ,
with a diagram showing the interpretation of Leonardo da Yinci—a painter who seems to have truly regarded Yitruvius as the highest authority upon the laws of form , whether tested by arithmetical or geometrical annotation . An animated discussion ensued , in which Mr . Digby Wyatt , Mr . John Bell , Professor Westmacott , Mr . Chariest Barry , and others took art . Professor Westmacott expressed his opinion that , although it
might not be desirable that all sculptors should have the same canon of form to guide them , still that it was absolutely necessary for each artist to have some sound canon upon wdiich to base his ideas of proportion . Mr . Bell called attention to tho fine specimens of sculpture left us by the early Greeks , and dwelt upon the superior advantages
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Our Architectural Chapter.
the Hanvv"ell Schools ^ for which they claimed damages . The cask ended not only favourably to Bro . Baukes , but as a professional acquittal and a complete justification of all that he had done . The new Architectural Union building in Conduit-street , Bondstreet , is fast approaching completion , and mil be fim by the
25 th of Mkrch next . The total cost will be MX 5 3 000 3 which has been raised by shares issued under the limited liability act . The building has a fine and Imposing elevation . It is to be used as a sort of centre for all the architectural and arehseological societies in the metropolis . There will also be room for some of the dilettante associations , should they desire to avail themselves of it The contract is taken by Messrs . Hack and Son , and Mr . Edmeston is , we believe ,
the architect . The scheme for the Great Exhibition of 1861 is still In enibryo but the Society of Arts have given the project their sanction , and there is little doubt of its ultimate success . The proposition to bring to this country , and exhibit at the same time and in the same building the celebrated Campagna Museum , now at Rome , is a good idea . This femed collection is valued at , £ 250 , 000 . It contains the best of all the buried treasures of Italian art that have u turned up within the last half century . Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds appears , it is true , a somewhat large sum for one collection ; but if we want u high v art , we must pay for it . Besides , imagine the fortune the Birmingham manufacturers will make by copying the originals in the base bronze of Warwickshire' ! .
ARCHITECTURAL MEETINGS . The usual fortnightly meeting of the Boyal Institute of British Architects was held on Monday , at 16 , Grosvenor-street , Mr . Henry Ashton , Y . P ., in the chair . The paper read was by Mr . Bonomi , and had reference to the Greek canon of proportion , as laid down by Yitruvius . The lecture was illustrated by digrams of the human form , the size of life ; and , also ,
with a diagram showing the interpretation of Leonardo da Yinci—a painter who seems to have truly regarded Yitruvius as the highest authority upon the laws of form , whether tested by arithmetical or geometrical annotation . An animated discussion ensued , in which Mr . Digby Wyatt , Mr . John Bell , Professor Westmacott , Mr . Chariest Barry , and others took art . Professor Westmacott expressed his opinion that , although it
might not be desirable that all sculptors should have the same canon of form to guide them , still that it was absolutely necessary for each artist to have some sound canon upon wdiich to base his ideas of proportion . Mr . Bell called attention to tho fine specimens of sculpture left us by the early Greeks , and dwelt upon the superior advantages