Val d'Arno

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Ruskin John. Val d'Arno

LECTURE I. NICHOLAS THE PISAN

LECTURE II. JOHN THE PISAN

LECTURE III. SHIELD AND APRON

LECTURE IV. PARTED PER PALE

LECTURE V. PAX VOBISCUM

LECTURE VI. MARBLE COUCHANT

LECTURE VII. MARBLE RAMPANT

LECTURE VIII. FRANCHISE

LECTURE IX. THE TYRRHENE SEA

LECTURE X. FLEUR DE LYS

APPENDIX. (NOTES ON THE PLATES ILLUSTRATING THIS VOLUME.)

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31. I closed my last lecture with the statement, on which I desired to give you time for reflection, that Christian architecture was, in its chief energy, the adornment of tombs,—having the passionate function of doing honour to the dead.

But there is an ethic, or simply didactic and instructive architecture, the decoration of which you will find to be normally representative of the virtues which are common alike to Christian and Greek. And there is a natural tendency to adopt such decoration, and the modes of design fitted for it, in civil buildings.4

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47. In order to understand the relation of the tradesmen and working men, including eminently the artist, to the general life of the thirteenth century, I must lay before you the clearest elementary charts I can of the course which the fates of Italy were now appointing for her.

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