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 17
ady what the Byzan^tine architecture is from which the transitionwas made, but we ought to know somethingof the Gothic architecture into which it led.C I shall endeavour therefore to give thereader in this chapter an idea, at once broadand definite, of the true nature of Gothicarchitecture,… … The Nature or perfect type of Gothic^ and how far it either fellof Gothic short of it^ or assumed foreign and independentforms. |HE principal difficulty in doingthis arises from the fact that everybuilding of the Gothic period dif/-fers in some important respectfrom every other; and many in^elude…
Architecture, Gothic
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