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
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xactly in proportion to the antiquity of the work, theimitation of such organic forms is less, and in the earliest examplesdoes not exist at all. There cannot be the shadow of a question,in the mind of a person familiarised with any single series of con-secutive examples, that tracery arose from the gradual enlarge-ment of the penetrations of the shield of stone which, usuallysupported by a central pillar, occupied the head of early windows.Professor Willis, perhaps, confines his observations somewhat tooabsolutely to the double sub-arch. I have given, in Plate VII. fig.2., an interesting case of rude penetration of a high and simplytrefoiled shield, from the church of the Eremitani at Padua. Butthe more frequent and typical form is that of the double.sub-arch, A great painter does care very nruch, however, which way his pencil strikes;and a good sculptor which way his mallet: but in neither of them is the care thattheir action may be admired, but that it may be just. P! -1 t r^ f ! f
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F CuiY, sc THE LAMP OF TRUTH. 59 decorated with various piercings of the space between it and thesuperior arch ; with a simple trefoil under a round arch, in theAbbaye aux Hommes, Caen (Plate III. fig. i.); with a verybeautifully proportioned quatrefoil, in the triforium of Eu, andthat of the choir of Lisieux ; with quatrefoils, sixfoils, and sept-foils, in the transept towers of Rouen, (Plate III. fig. 2.) ; with atrefoil awkwardly, and very small quatrefoil above, at Coutances(Plate III. fig. 3.) : then, with multiplications of the samefigures, pointed or round, giving very clumsy shapes of the inter-mediate stone, (fig. 4., from one of the nave chapels of Rouen,fig. 5., from one of the nave chapels of Bayeux,) and finally, bythinning out the stony ribs, reaching conditions like that of theglorious typical form of the clerestory of the apse of Beauvais,(fig. 6.). XXII. Now, it will be noticed that, during the whole of thisprocess, the attention is kept fixed on the forms of the pene

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