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THE ORIGIN AND PROSPECTS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE . 1. The Seven Lamps of Architecture . By JOHN RUSKIN . Lon- don : 1849 . 2. A History of the Gothic Revival . London 1872 . By CHARLES EASTLAKE . 3. Lectures on Mediaval Architecture .
THE ORIGIN AND PROSPECTS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE . 1. The Seven Lamps of Architecture . By JOHN RUSKIN . Lon- don : 1849 . 2. A History of the Gothic Revival . London 1872 . By CHARLES EASTLAKE . 3. Lectures on Mediaval Architecture .
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In the woods in a winter after- noon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window , with which the Gothic cathedrals are adorned , in the colours of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the ...
In the woods in a winter after- noon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window , with which the Gothic cathedrals are adorned , in the colours of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the ...
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We may therefore dismiss the attempt to find the origin of Gothic in Christianity as scarcely less fanciful than that which bases it on direct imitation of nature . The most that can be safely admitted with regard to the three theories ...
We may therefore dismiss the attempt to find the origin of Gothic in Christianity as scarcely less fanciful than that which bases it on direct imitation of nature . The most that can be safely admitted with regard to the three theories ...
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This volume published 1908, not 1808 as listed.
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