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 28
s, andhas a certain dignity in its utter refusal ofornament. But I cannot say it is entertaining.How many windows precisely of this form doyou suppose there are in the New Town ofEdinburgh ? I have not counted them allthrough the town, but I counted them thismorning along this very Queen Street,… … Z~l r Fig. i. i^mm ^@- Fig. 3- Fig. 5- I. ARCHITECTURE. J and seventy-eight.* And your decorations arejust as monotonous as your simplicities. Howmany Corinthian and Doric columns do youthink there are in your banks, and post-offices,institutions, and I know not what else, oneexactly like another…
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 · Architecture · Painting · Pre-Raphaelitism
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