The seven lamps of architecture : lectures on architecture and painting : the study of architecture (1900)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Dana Estes & Co · leaf 116
architect was able tocarve the intermediate spaces with exquisite leafage, or to varyhis wall surface with inlaid stones. The northern architectneither knew the ancient work, nor possessed the delicatematerial; and he had no resource but to cover his walls withholes, cut into foiled shapes like… … PLATE VII.-(Page 93—Vol. V.)Pierced Ornaments from Lisieux, Bayeux, Verona, and Padua. TEE LAMP OF POWER 93 not be cut through, and the foihngs were large, those shadowadid not fill the entire space ; but the form was, nevertheless,drawn on the eye by means of them, and when it was possible,they…
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