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 113
re here! still here, in yourdespised workmen : the race has not degene-rated, it is you who have bound them down,and buried them beneath your Greek stones.There would be a resurrection of them, asof renewed souls, if you would only lift theweight of these weary walls from off theirhearts.* 39. But… … Fi.sr. 16. II. ARCHITECTURE. 75 distance from the eye. I have given youone example of Gothic ornament, meant to beseen close; now let me give you one of Gothicornament intended to be seen far off. Here{fig. 16) is a sketch of a niche at AmiensCathedral, some fifty or sixty feet high on thefacade,…
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 · Architecture · Painting · Pre-Raphaelitism
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