The seven lamps of architecture : lectures on architecture and painting : the study of architecture (1900)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Dana Estes & Co · leaf 180
ire a time and care whichmight be better spent. And, exactly as a good and earneststudent of drawing will not lose time in ruhng hues or finish-ing backgrounds about studies which, while they have an-swered his immediate piu-pose, he knows to be imperfect andinferior to what he will do… … PLATE XIL-(Page 149-Vol. Y.)Fragments from Abbeville, Lucca, Venice, and Pisa. THE LAMP OF LIFE. 149 signs, in the contempt of exact symmetry and measurement^which in dead architecture are the most painful necessities. yiJl. In Plate XII. fig. 1 I have given a most singular in-stance both of rude…
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