Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 . is. This isthe great modern mistake: you are actuallyat twice the cost which would produce an im-pressive ornament, to produce a contemptibleone; you increase the price of your buildingsby one-half, in order to mince their decorationinto invisibility. Walk through your streets,and try to make out the ornaments on theupper parts of your fine buildings—(there arenone at the bottoms of them). Dont do itlong, or you will all come home with inflamedeyes, but you will soon discover that youcan see nothing but confusion
Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 . is. This isthe great modern mistake: you are actuallyat twice the cost which would produce an im-pressive ornament, to produce a contemptibleone; you increase the price of your buildingsby one-half, in order to mince their decorationinto invisibility. Walk through your streets,and try to make out the ornaments on theupper parts of your fine buildings—(there arenone at the bottoms of them). Dont do itlong, or you will all come home with inflamedeyes, but you will soon discover that youcan see nothing but confusion in ornamentsthat have cost you ten or twelve shillings afoot. 37. Now, the Gothic builders placed theirdecoration on a precisely contrary principle,and on the only rational principle. All theirbest and most delicate work they put on thefoundation of the building, close to the spec-tator, and on the upper parts of the walls theyput ornaments large, bold, and capable of beingplainly seen at the necessary distance. A singleexample will enable you to understand this Plate Fi?. i
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