rudygodinez:Friedrich Gilly, Design for the Royal Iron Mill, Berlin, (1797)The night atmosphere whic
rudygodinez:Friedrich Gilly, Design for the Royal Iron Mill, Berlin, (1797)The night atmosphere which also pervades over many views of Coalbrookdale, allows for an especially good depiction of fire and smoke. The figurative frieze and the forms in the arch of the tower are only barely perceptible. They are meant less as a pictorial program for the explanation of the building – an unnecessary function, considering the smokestacks – than a kind of “raising up” of the purely functional architectural commission. -- source link