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 42
formof the pointed arch; and to that form owes itsgrace and character. I will take, for instance,a spray of the tree which so gracefully adornsyour Scottish glens and crags—there is nolovelier in the world—the common ash. Hereis a sketch of the clusters of leaves whichform the extremity of one of… … Fig. 4. Fig. 6. I. ARCHITECTURE. 19 modern politicians, are of their equalities, andsimilarities; how necessary they think it thateach part of a building should be like everyother part. Now Nature abhors equality, andsimilitude, just as much as foolish men lovethem. You will find that the ends of…
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 · Architecture · Painting · Pre-Raphaelitism
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