The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-17 00:00:00

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DECORATIONS OF THE BUILDINO.
At a meeting of the Royal Institute of British
Anthiteets, held that *he. Mr. Owes Joan read a pacer oa
." bill Heeerstions gemmed Is, the Exhibition boildiag in
ilffitegerb." The Mffiathetes -el inamben was unusually
tatrarcurstatT. =4,w,.°46'„1.b744 ,---
T...b.i, was taken by A. Salvia Esq. The usual toe-
Ilee a die isethat• having bees disc:mod of,
• • •114. ()wee Jona, proorieded who the reeding of his
pre, hem "Ma we give the slams poleter,—" Of late
peon, the anyilaymeat sad appreciattma of gaper has
mis sense rapid arid.* throughout Sompte. MO lieg
hag bas legged far belthid, which is the Siege treeterk-
aMe as her waters love Wag been temeeellit le eto- 1
Marisa. The fault lies, I feu, with eareeleee, hi that We
have toe Imag negleeted this reenlist punish of s *hi.
messed studies sad pesthole. Tee intake, 10 oarlissos
have bee. gine over to the epholsterer lid thiethelielk
laway of then men of great tote and talent, I dieas=
still we mut regret that our netnews ban ma
more et their skill sad learning to this sabjee, sad 'bees
prepared to lead rather then to follow. We soe osly
now beginning to shake off the trammels ia which the 1
last the of mineral whitewashing hes left va. Every:
thing but pan white was considered %Menially, and rtfll
M considered by lathy, se wanting in good taste. The *A-
dores of colour on the monuments of Once* were, as we
all know, at lint stoutly denied, and thee supposed to be
the Watt of after barbarous egos. Whew this
was so longer tenable, it was said that the
t though perfect manors of form, were ignoraat of Othellfs
er at all events sainipplied it. Mu were Wastage Nies
op Abair leso.eberialeal idea of wwhite marble Oa
Perihelion sod the simplicity of its forme, eel egibthil W
regard it as • baildisg coloured is only part, ter aligellei
with- • 'most elaborate system of INSMINIVIdia. Ti. 1
steeliness, of en Poe Getffie eethedvell has lost leak
its beauty from the entire absence of colour. He who with.'
out prejudice surveys a Gettig building, for the ins goo I
picked out In soloed, will be forced to aderiithat weellama,
he bad not understood or appreented Gothic areni
sod would Bad that smear of the getemetrkal to=
nosbicatisaa beton lift depended eurtrely ea colour for their I
full development. We an too apt to eassider that shirk 1
we fiad established 'Snead use the right ; bat. between I
gtsc=rooted the Puritan prejadioes en miser say bawl
we tow tut shaking *am of, sad whoa we haw inns
iad
se this. will he no resew to fear that Megeffiffi
other mations is the ran, as Actig.ll4l
had
rffiNip glebe p, by the increased seamy, ,
So/Slkr peon Moto of her loss; whim ethle2E
see ido AIA' therein lost in the cemusescen
It is .sot asemauy kw me te
lich Palatial of whisk we are sow mks te
le well hatters manse el you, by it. menellear
the simplicity of -es cometrectioo, sod the •11-
white kw bees ban ot the power which the ispd.•
el 'Wife limas will give is protheirg grandeur ef
100; sad I wish sew to show that this grandeur stay be
still bertha, warmed by a system of miming mkt*. by
maskiageininettly every Ina in the lesilehto, theft testi le
fartesee its knew, ieskegth, end he bulk: The very eaten
of the material of which this building i• Midst, constructed,
vial, hoe, requires that It should be painted. On whatpria.
doh shall ere do this t Soould we be justified in &doylies •
simple list of white or atoce colour, the stoat method of paste
int_ intla? New, it ems% be borne is mind that this buddies
will be offered on thb south side, sad ova the whole if
the roof, with canvas, so that there sea be bat little light
and shade. The myriads of similar haw, therefore, ei
which the buileme is composed, (allies one before the other
would ton ell iisiamses, sad would in Wet form the dull
cloud overhanging the Exhibition. A line if %einem, As
1 sloe now may be sees at the building, would potent the
• last at • shies wall, and it Twill be hapoesible is the dis-
tance to dig:impish ass alums fres asother. Teased*
of sewing would have the further disedvantage of rendeethg
time budding totally unconnected with the enfold objects it
I. distend to bold. Should the building be painted of a
desk colour, like the roof of nee of our railway stations i i
This, morally with the white method, would present es*
mob of tadistisetness. The relief of the oast iron would dip.
'Appear, each tedium aid girder would Weed to the eye but 1
ie• t stlnuette. Let es now eentider the bedding painted
some pale neateal dot—doll greelt, or buff; in doing
we should be perfeetly eels. Provided the colours were
1 INA too pale to be sideline, or so dark as sensibly to sleet
Ow eye, ono wield hardly make a mistake. Yet how tame
led monotonous would be the week; it would be necessary
that this tint, whatever we might anon, 'Wald be of such
a subdued, emoted 'haricot as to avoid a difficulty well
known to mounters of drawings and pastors of picture
galleries, vie., that is purporting as yon thane to any sksde
of solos, is that exact proportion you Gijon or destroy
=Wien it is intended to relieve which may have
We should then be reduced toe dill ato-
MOIMMI= sitheet *element. How onwortby would
thie he ed the_great Millehieli. How little would it impress
the wallis Sow hake scald it week the artist. It wield
be le int Wined of patiently as isureivel the knot. We are
mew brought to the o:moderatos of the poly other well•
deified system white presents deed—vie., end eoloariag.
This, I conceive, it saasesefolly carried out, would bring the
building and its contests into one perfect harmony ; it
would fitly sorry oat sae of the objects for which this
Exhibition was tormed—vie., that of promoting the union of
flag area and etesidestures. It would be an eimorintent on
as immense scale, which, if succtestul, would tend to dispel
ti,e prejudices of those whose eyn are yet unformed to
colour, to develop the imperfect apprentices of others,
end save OM aunty y from the reproach whisk foreign vi-
sitors, .ton educated in this pertialar than ourselves, would
wet fell to make were to Milldam' otherwise mooted : it
geoid everywhere bring out the contraction of the building,
obi*. es I raid before. would *open bicker, lot ger, and
moth sill. Topg. the this result, it is .mental not to make
a e lsaring may become the most vulgar, se
le be tlO son twesuiel of anima It is neeneary,
IMsite, to ressod with great eautiOW, to minden the
MOM of every seep, not to be misled by the appearance of
soy ins portion et the buildieg; bat to hear in mind al-
wage the effect the building will have was ensplmed and fur-
nished. I have sot Rhenish tram treading a path beset with ea
many difficulties, and I willingly woos before you this
evniog to meet your criticisms, sad to welsh any opinions
which the experiesoe of my brother ankitects may Illfifitt.
PUP*. It we se alas the remise of the architecture
of the swims we shall lad everywhere that is the early
periods the prevailing eolours mud in deferred= were the
"peimaros, blue, red, sad yellow, w" mandarin" lip
peados nay sparingly. We Pad this equally in thermals.
M Mthavels, Central America, of Egypt, sod Greece, and
theelepheat the eather civilisation genially. We hod also
ethipwhere that as time wore on the seeoodary colours in-
wiedd. tlemision of the primaries. Bien and red were
Wgrom sod purple. is Egypt, in the temples
=l7yithe 1. haroahe, hien, red, and yellow mainly pre-
theliMi. mbiles loihose built by the Ptolemies the greens sod
podia she their places. •la those of the R. pried
edges, Me edit further degraded to • dell sod issonerathe
eseiMiase& la she Greek wapiti, es it as we caa
gather from the few remains of colour we haw, the some
taw prevails; whilst in Pompeii we bad the se.
esadsrise sad eareleras as the relief harmonise.
'la the Alhambra, the blue and red of the Moors were
paled over with grime sod purple by Charles V., and his
Meilemeen, and with the worst stint Is medals Cairo and
Abeam saes g. ninny, we have Erns onstantly sponging
lie by
mew
with red, where blue would have bees used is
ember. mew It %envied: tree of the works of the middle
In the wily maseueripte and Maimed glass. thoogh
= Edson ewe an .:eluded, yet the primaries wen
*Ay used whilst in later times wo have every variety of
geode and tint, sad rarely with equal neon. It would
seem. either shot the hobos mind, ever whin; for change,
beams weary of the simple herniation which the pimento
Abided, sod sought more compikated effects from the
emethieriee and tertiaries; or probably it arose from the &t-
-affies' of at, sad the Incapacity of the artist, who, usable
*duel with the riskily colours in their pure state, took
Pear in tbealeaselaries sod tertiaries, where error Is the
Imbue of Golan was lies fatal, although to prods.* a per-
feet harmony with the setioadarin and tertiaries is so doubt
think more Meat. Amongst modern examples of the
the if ening we may site the Royal Chapel of Munich, is
shill liesioted, and glad hem the pheeipal kartoomies, as
far areadisr le the other shirches of the moo city, la with
theffiethasei tad eseffiery wham prevail , At Paris, is the
lath* of Et. Viewrat dit Paul, deellelly the mast perfect,
ermines of modem deeoretioe In any mow, the colours
Me lase, red, and gold, meliorated by white; this ante
thistreets mirably with the deeoratioss of B*. Deo* St.
Germain die Pre., sod *thee churches ef Paris iit whelp, the
oniondsries and tertiaries prevail. Whea thee
eskers were seed is the beet bids is amtleastioa whit the
prituarise they wen ly ionised to the laser peas
of the bold , ,is this, mature, who uses for la
I sows thepeimsrias, sad Nerves the secondaries for her
leaves and stalks. Is the decoration of the Exhibition bailees
I therefore proposes to use the colours blur, rid, and palely, is
such relativeNseatitin se to neutratise se destroy each °thee;
thus no one colour will bo dominant or fatigue the eye,
and all the exhibited lintels will mist and be misted by
the colours of the bailliog itself. In home tieematMe we
occasionally find &ran upon one 'Meet ; ere lave • Fees theek
a piak penes, sad a rod them, he. It would Angell,' be
anwhe to adopt any one colour for this berildisg, when the'
onatents bill be of all iniegisable hum, free white to blear.,
Discarding, on the other hand, the posfeet neatral *awls
colt for the occasion. we uetaraily slept blue, e.g. sod
yellow, in or sees the neutsal prcpartiesese aighewileo, awl
throe ef
- • but, to avoid eny harsh sategoelers tie
• me whoa in ester, or any undesired
mpealaiss arias. host the immediate praaheity el the
I repine is all cease to interpose • line of Niko
Zreakttem,whisk villas/lea Am 'WI gin them tiehreass
I value. leisersiikseweithatiftikeoehd red some together win►
out the iaterpeeitien et white, they will each become tinged
with the reepilemotary colour of the other: thus the tell
would beesmirelightly orange, and the blue slightly grew.
Au all whored bodies reflect some white rays, the white la
' iestaperities, his Impeder tone, azdagitisiteellmise while.
I nye, and we me the saloon parer, at the mate thee red the
elite brames third with the waspituiestad cada a OW
rwhisk li ie placed, tine bertha Willie Is
eit stele *nets isi daesseima a iiitg Is
As allaboillolio sod shade, um Isis Mali of aims Wrest
reiG salyolloe, is os piece blot, slush rehevi4 'Cs 0011• P ,
sere When ; yellow, which edveseas, oft the ceaysl I and
,red, the esteer el the middle distaste, ea the Iserisolital
fff plasm; *mistral while as the, vertieal plasm. Ponewille
ow
We piaci* in the building beim as, we both fed
fee the owlessidee of the girdle, yellow on the resod pa-
thos Of the otheme, blue la tie bellows el the
Now “ lo bolosoosy mob Nay co put Ike word selostolarre