Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 (1892)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, author of introduction, etc · New York : Charles E. Merrill & Co. ; London : George Allen · leaf 108
he four little figures which form those angles;and it shows you the head only of one of thelarger figures in the centre. Yet just observehow much design, how much wonderful compo-sition, there is in this mere fragment of a build-ing of the great times; a fragment, literally nolarger than a… … Fie. i;. II. ARCHITECTURE. 73 scale—but on the design, of this minute frag-ment. You see it is composed of a branchof wild roses, which switches round at theangle, embracing the minute figure of thebishop, and terminates in a spray reachingnearly to the head of the large figure. Youwill observe how…
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 · Architecture · Painting · Pre-Raphaelitism
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