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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 190

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oper leaves relieved ona black or dark ground, thus {fig. 20).* Andobserve carefully, with respect to the completedrawing of the leaves on this tree, and the * Having no memoranda of my own, taken from Giottoslandscape, I had this tree copied from an engraving ; butI imagine the rude termination of… … III. TURNER AND HIS WORKS. 149 smallness of their number, the real distinctionbetween noble conventionalism and false con-ventionalism. You will often hear modern archi-tects defending their monstrous ornamentationon the ground that it is - conventional/ andthat architectural ornament ought to be…

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 · Architecture · Painting · Pre-Raphaelitism

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