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 60
er, only permitted as partof the great system of perpetualchange which ran through everymember of Gothic design, and ren^dered it as endless a field for thebeholders enquiry as for the builde/s imagina^tion: change, which in the best schools is subtleand delicate, and rendered more delightful by… … Changeful^ in one feature, sometimes in another; it may beness in the capitals or crockets, in the niches or the traceries, or in all together, but in some one orother of the features it will be found always. Ifthe mouldings are constant, the surface sculpturewill change; if the capitals are of a…
Architecture, Gothic
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