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The seven lamps of architecture (1883)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, [Eng.] : G. Allen · leaf 186

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ent into a steepconnecting mass, drawing the eye to it by rich tracery. This isnobly done in St. Wulfran of Abbeville, and attempted partly atRouen, though that west front is made up of so many unfinishedand supervening designs that it is impossible to guess the realintention of any one of its… … I Jk THE LAMP OF BEAUTY. 12/ page, from Rouen Cathedral; that of the tracery before distin-guished as a type of the noblest manner of Northern Gothic(Chap. II. §XXn.). It is a tracery of three orders, of whichthe first is divided into a leaf moulding, fig. 4. and b in the sec-tion, and a plain…

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