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Definition of Monumentality
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monumentality
Literary usage of Monumentality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"It thereby embodies a certain notion of monumentality. A Ville Radieuse is
simultaneously new and definitive; it has no past and stands outside history. ..."
2. A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period by Chandler Rathfon Post (1921)
"Their violent distress only serves to accentuate the proud monumentality of their
... and the heroic vigor that gives the heads the required monumentality. ..."
3. Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting by Patricia Lawrence, Darrell Arlynn Amyx (1996)
"Labels are pernicious; "majestic" lions, "heavy" style, and "monumentality"167
all have obscured real criteria and blurred distinctions in this context of ..."
4. Space and the Architect: Lessons in Architecture 2 by Herman Hertzberger (2000)
"The monumentality of the pyramid is in every respect outward-facing; there is in
fact no interior. The theatre by contrast has no outside, ..."
5. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"The most prominent spaces at the Fair were to obtain their monumentality not from
the architecture of the palaces but from the lofty frontages of double ..."
6. The Theatre of Max Reinhardt by Huntly Carter (1914)
"Thus the effects are simplified and heightened according to the need of monumentality.
Under the influence of these mighty spaces, these big, severe lines, ..."
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