Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 151
dersit a feature of detestable ugliness, wherever it occurs on alarge scale. It is eminently characteristic of Tudor work, andit is the profile of the Chinese roof (I say on a large scale, be-cause this as well as all other capricious arches, may be madesecure by their masonry when small, but not… … Fig. XXXIII. THE ARCH MASONRY. 137 principal arrangement, but as a mere heading to a commonpointed arch, we have the form c, Fig. XXXIII. Now thisis better than the entirely reversed arch for two reasons ; first,less of the line is weakened by reversing ; secondly, the doublecurve has a very high…
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