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" The characteristics of Power and Beauty occur more or less in different buildings , some in one and some in another. But all together , and all in their highest possible relative degrees, they exist, so far as I know, only in one building in the world,... "
Giotto. - London, Sampson Low, Marsson, Searle and Rivington 1880 - Page 118
by Harry Quilter - 1880 - 146 pages
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...attributes ; its -color should be as fixed as its form. The following list of noble characteristics occurs more or less in different buildings, some in one and some in another : — 1. Projection towards the top. 2. Breadth of flat surface. 3. Square compartments of that surface....
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Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...present to our purpose. — SV i. ch. xix. § 11, 12, 13. THE CAMPANILE OF GIOTTO AT FLORENCE. — The characteristics of Power and Beauty occur more...different buildings, some in one and some in another. But altogether, and all in their highest possible relative degrees, they exist, as far as I know, only...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1872 - 500 pages
...attributes ; its color should be as fixed as its form. The following list of noble characteristics occurs more or less in different buildings, some in one and some in another : — 1. Projection towards the top. 2. Breadth of flat surface. 3. Square compartments of that surface....
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...its color should be as fixed as its form. The following list of noble characteristics occurs joiore or less in different buildings, some in one and some in another : — 1. Projection towards the top. 2. Breadth of flat surface. 3. Square compartments of that surface....
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Italian pictures drawn with pen and pencil, by the author of ..., Volume 252

Samuel Manning - 1878 - 236 pages
...Florence. Mr. Ruskin has described it so admirably, that we cannot do better than quote his words : " The characteristics of Power and Beauty occur more...different buildings, some in one and some in another. But altogether, and all in their highest possible relative degrees, they exist, as far as I know, only...
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Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the ...

William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pages
...Italy. It was erected by Giotto (127t>-133i>), about the middle of the fourteenth century. jfl®- " The characteristics of Power and Beauty occur more or less in different buildings, Borne in one and some in another. But all together, and all in their highest possible relative degrees,...
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Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the ...

William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 602 pages
...Florence, Italy. It was erected by Giotto (127в-1:Ш), about the middle of the fourteenth ceutury. 4У "The characteristics of Power and Beauty occur more or less in different building»», погас in one and some in another. But all together, and all in their highest possible...
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An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry

Robert Browning, Hiram Corson - 1886 - 408 pages
...Campanile of the Cathedral, or Duomo, of Florence (La Cattedrale di S. Maria del Fiore), begun in 1334. " The characteristics of Power and Beauty occur more...they exist, as far as I know, only in one building of the world, the Campanile of Giotto." — Ruskln. But why did it more than startle me ? There's a...
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - 1890 - 476 pages
...patterns (§ 39), and obtained by the use of naturally coloured stone (§ 35). These characteristics occur more or less in different buildings, some in...highest possible relative degrees, they exist, as far as 1 know, only in one building in the world, the Campanile of Giotto at Florence. The drawing of the...
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A Guide-book to the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning

George Willis Cooke - 1891 - 484 pages
...no one of his productions has excited more interest than the campanile, of which Ruskin has said : " The characteristics of power and beauty occur more...different buildings, some in one and some in another. But altogether, and all in their highest possible relative degrees, they exist, as far as I know, only...
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