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 63
s to say, the love of natural objects for their own sake, and the effort to represent them frank/* ly, unconstrained by artistical laws. <[ This characteristic of the style partly follows in neces^ sary connection with those named above. For, so soon as the workman is left free to represent what… … and with much play of fancy, but with small re^ Naturalismspect for law. There is, however, a marked dis*tinction between the imaginations of the Westernand Eastern races, even when both are left free;the Western, or Gothic, delighting most in the re^presentation of facts, and the Eastern…
Architecture, Gothic
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