Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 477
ity anddirectness with which they express the condition of roof-ing on which they are founded. They have many inter-esting varieties, according to their scale, manner of deco-ration, and character of the nations by whom they arepractised; but all their varieties are finally referable tothe three… … THE SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE. 413 All the architects in the world will never discover anyother way of bridging a space than these three, the lintel,the round arch, the gable ; they may vary the curve of thearch, or curve the sides of the gable or break them down;but in doing this they are merely…
Art · Aesthetics
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