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The seven lamps of architecture : lectures on architecture and painting : the study of architecture (1900)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Dana Estes & Co · leaf 68

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ess durability than the other, which dies away from it in pro-cess of ages, and leaves it, unless it have noble qualities of itsown, naked and bare. That enduring noblesse I should, there-fore, call truly architectural; and it is not until this has beensecured that the accessory power of painting… … PLATE II.—;Page 55—Vol V.)Paiit of the Cathedral of St. Lo, Nokmandy. THE LAMP OF TRUTH. 55 I would fain see these taken advantage of to the full. Everyvariety of hue, from pale yellow to purple, passing throughorange, red, and brown, is entirely at our command ; nearlyevery kind of green and gray…

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