Identifier: sevenlampsofarchrusk (find matches)
Title: The seven lamps of architecture
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, (Eng.) : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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incipal mass, both inbulk and interest (as having the main gateway), and the towersare subordinated to it, as an animals horns are to its head. Themoment the towers rise so high as to overpower the body andcentre, and become themselves the principal masses, they willdestroy the proportion, unless they are made unequal, and oneof them the leading feature of the cathedral, as at Antwerp andStrasburg. But the purer method is to keep them down in duerelation to the centre, and to throw up the pediment 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 builders. XXVII. This rule of supremacy applies to the smallest aswell as to leading features : it is interestingly seen in the arrange-ment of all good mouldings. I have given one, on the opposite ate X .
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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 roll, also seen in fig. 4. c in the section ; thesetwo divisions surround the entire window or panelling, and arecarried by two-face shafts of corresponding sections. The secondand third orders are plain rolls following the line of the tracery;four divisions of moulding in all : of these four, the leaf mouldingis, as seen in the sections, much the largest; next to it the outerroll; then, by an exquisite alternation, the innermost roll (e), inorder that it may not be lost in the recess, and the intermediate(d), the smallest. Each roll has its own shaft and capital; andthe two smaller, which in effect upon the eye, owing to the retire-ment of the innermost, are nearly equal, have smaller capitals

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