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The seven lamps of architecture

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · 1880 · Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent [England] : G. Allen · 6 pictures

Ruskin's 1880 architecture treatise, published by G. Allen at Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent, is a plates-driven study of Gothic building for architects and students of design. Its plates show close-up engravings of tracery, arches, carved capitals, and foliate ornament, with hatched shading that suggests how carved stone reads under raking light.

Architecture

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