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 55
eservedfor the top of the window; they are sparinglygranted to its horizontal base. And farther,observe, that when neither the convenience ofthe sill, nor the support of the structure, areany more of moment, as in small windows andtraceries, you instantly have the point given tothe bottom of the… … Fij I. ARCHITECTURE. 20, by the most careless observer. And whybeautiful? Look at it (fig. 7). Simply becausein its great contours it has the form of a forestleaf, and because in its decoration it has usednothing but forest leaves. The sharp and ex-pressive moulding which surrounds it is a…
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 · Architecture · Painting · Pre-Raphaelitism
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