Tyrolese Architecture 
GASTELLO BOON CONSIGLTO 
TRENT, TYROL 
night, in moonlight shadows 
dealingvengeance or misfor¬ 
tune, and repair to them at 
dawn. Destruction has been 
wrought as often by shocks 
of nature as by human 
violence. The granite 
masonry, well withstood the 
attacks of early arms. With 
implicit faith in it, did the 
commander of Kufstein 
taunt the Emperor who 
demanded his surrender by 
leaning from the bastions 
and sweeping the walls with 
a broom after each futile 
volley of the attacking guns. 
But the strength of a super¬ 
structure availed nothing 
w'hen foundations them¬ 
selves gave way, or land- court, castello buon consiglio 
slides from heights above 
precipitated tons of yielding 
mountainside. 
Prosperity of one kind or 
another is needed that the 
art of a country may appear; 
and though the highest arr 
has been brought forth when 
prosperity included luxury 
and enlightened ease, the 
victors who wrested power 
from others, and reared 
castles and fortresses, had 
their own artists to express 
the character of their epoch. 
The prosperity of peaceful 
pursuits, of manual skill, of 
mining and of trade, which 
steadily increased in the 
Tyrol as the feudal system 
was weakened, is another 
