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The seven lamps of architecture (1907)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, G. Allen · leaf 207

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work, in modes which we shall ex-amine in the next Chapter, became a subjectof peculiar interest to the Christian architects. Plate VI. … \j u f-,-,n- THE LAMP OF POWER. 16/ Its broad flat lights could only be made valuableby points or masses of energetic shadow, whichwere obtained by the Romanesque architect bymeans of ranges of recessed arcade, in themanagement of which, however, though all theeffect depends upon the shadow so…

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