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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l principles of Gothic architecture. His book above re-ferred to (§ 21) taught me all my grammar of central Gothic, but this grammar ofthe flamboyant I worked out for myself, and wTote it here, supposing the state-ments new: all had, however, been done previously by Professor Willis, as heafterwards pointed out to me, in his work On the Characteristic Interpenetra-tions of the Flamboyant Style. I cannot understand how, in the subsequent illustrations of the principle Ihad, during the arrangement of this volume, most prominently in my mind, onthe founding of all beautiful design on natural fomi, I omitted so forcible apoint as the e.xact correspondence of these mouldings to the structure of involvedcrystals. Perhaps it was because I knew the builders had never looked at, orthought of, a crjstal; but then I ought to have said so. The omission is themore strange because I caught the resemblance in the Pisan Gothic—see below,Chap. IV., § 7—where it is not half so distinct ! Plato IV
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\- r -tj::! . THE LAMP OF TRUTH. 67 quantities were always as beautiful as they were intricate ; and,though the lines of intersection were harsh, they were exquisitelyopposed to the flower-work of the interposing mouldings. Butthe fancy did not stop here; it rose from the bases into thearches; and there, not findinsf room enou^rh for its exhibition, itwithdrew the capitals from the heads even of cylindrical shafts,(we cannot but admire, while we regret, the boldness of the menwho could defy the authority and custom of all the nations of theearth for a space of some three thousand years,) in order thatthe arch mouldings might appear to emerge from the pillar, as atits base they had been lost in it, and not to terminate on theabacus of the capital ; then they ran the mouldings across andthrough each other, at the point of the arch ; and finally, notfinding their natural directions enough to furnish as many occa-sions of intersection as they wished, bent them hither and thither,and cut o

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