The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice (1892)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Morris, William, 1834-1896, Kelmscott Press · Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press ; London and Orpington : Published by George Allen · leaf 115
ole effectof all Southern architecture being dependent upxon the use of the flat gable, and of all Northernupon that of the acute. I need not here dwell up^on the difference between the lines of an Italianvillage, or the flat tops of most Italian towers, andthe peaked gables and spires of the… … The Nature all its angles acute, and a Romanesque one mustof Gothic have the upper one obtuse; or, to give the reader P VTTT a simple practical rule, rig: All 1. ^^j^g ^j^y gable, a or b, Fig: XIIL, and strike a semicircle on its base; if its top rises above the semicircle, as at b, it is a Gothic…
Architecture, Gothic
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