Inside Out Library · Explore

The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 20

An illustration from The stones of Venice, 1890, leaf 20
on, it is a sign of jaded energy and failing invention. Donot confuse it with fulness or richness. Wealth is not neces-sarily wantonness : a Gothic moulding may be buried half afoot deep in thorns and leaves, and yet will be chaste in everyline ; and a late Renaissance moulding may be utterly… … Plate I.—Temperance and Intemperance in Curvature.

Architecture

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The stones of Venice

More like this