Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 517
ot merely agreeable, but necessary. Thus, inFig. 7, the number of objects, forming the line of beauty,is pervaded by one simple energy; but in Fig. 8 thatenergy is separately manifested in each, and the result ispainful monotony. Parallel right lines, without grouping,are alwTays liable to this… … Fig. 7.—Harmony of Contrast. hills. If none of these interruptions take place, there isimmediate monotony, and no introduction can be more THE SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE. 439 delightful than such a tower in the distance as Strasburg,or, indeed, than any architectural combination of verticals.
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