The seven lamps of architecture : lectures on architecture and painting : the study of architecture (1900)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Dana Estes & Co · leaf 44
we shall not be offended byfinding that the sculptor in his fulness of fancy has chosen togive much more than these mere points of light, and hascomposed them of groups of figures. But if the ornamentdoes not answer its purpose, if it have no distant, no trulydecorative power ; if generally seen it… … PLATE I.—(Page 33-Vol. V)Ornaments from Rouen, St. Lo, and Venice. THE LAMP OF SACRIFICE. 3Sf and would be the better of being seen through a Stanhopelens. Hence the greatness of the northern Gothic as con-trasted with the latest Italian. It reaches nearly the sameextreme of detail; but it never…
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