Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 238
e gable. All thearchitects in the world will neverdiscover any other ways of bridg-ing a space than these three ; theymay vaiy the curve of the arch, orcurve the sides of the gable, orbreak them ; but in doing this theyare merely modifying or subdivid-ing, not adding to the genericforms. § Lxxxvin.… … Fig. X 214 THE STONES OF VENICE. which is the original function of all architectures. And thosetliree architectures are pwre exactly in proportion to the sim-plicity and directness with which they express the conditionof roofing on which they are founded. They have many in-teresting varieties,…
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