Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 730
ersimple, as in the cusped arch, or complicated, as in tracery,rose out of this love of leafage ; not that the form of the archis intended to imitate a leaf, but to be invested with the namecharacters of beauty which the designer had discovered in the leaf.Observe, there is a wide difference… … Fig. XVI. Fig. XVII. 220 THE STONES OF VENICE. builder perceived that, in the leaves wliicli lie copied for hisminor decorations, there was a peculiar beauty, arising fromcertain characters of curvature in outline, and certain methodsof subdivision and of radiation in structure. On a small scale,in…
Architecture
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stonesofvenicewi02rusk-246-46.webp)
