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 65
urves decoratedwith various ornaments, succeeding one anotherin endless perspective along the streets ofAntwerp, Ghent, or Brussels. In Picardy andNormandy, again, and many towns of Ger-many, where the material for building is princi-pally wood, the roof is made to project overthe gables, fringed… … Fii 1. architecture:. 37 the effect of the whole street depends on theprominence of the gables; not only of thefronts towards the streets, but of the sidesalso, set with small garret or dormer windows,each of the most fantastic and beautiful form,and crowned with a little spire or pinnacle.Wherever…
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 · Architecture · Painting · Pre-Raphaelitism
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