The seven lamps of architecture : lectures on architecture and painting : the study of architecture (1900)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Dana Estes & Co · leaf 160
ign all things at first in severeabstraction, and to be prepared, if need were, to carry themout in that form ; then to mark the parts where high finishwould be admissible, to complete these always with stern ref-erence to their general effect, and then connect them by a^rraduated scale of… … PLATE XL-(Page 131-Vol. V.)Balcony in the Campo, St Benedetto, Venice. THE LAMP OF BEAUTY. 131 degradation of the cinque cento manner of decoration was notowing to its naturalism, to its faitMulness of imitation, but tcits imitation of ugly, i.e. unnatural things. So long as it re-strained itself…
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