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قراءة كتاب Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
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Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
LECTURES
ON
ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING
DELIVERED AT EDINBURGH
IN NOVEMBER, 1853.
CONTENTS.
- PAGE
- Prefacev
- LECTURE I.
- Architecture1
- LECTURE II.
- Architecture34
- Addenda to Lectures I. and II.56
- LECTURE III.
- Turner and his Works75
- LECTURE IV.
- Pre-Raphaelitism100
- Addenda to Lecture IV.123
LIST OF PLATES.
| Facing page | ||||
| Plate | I. | Figs. | 1. 3. and 5. Illustrative diagrams | 3 |
| " | II. | " | 2. Windows in Oakham Castle | 5 |
| " | III. | " | 4. and 6. Spray of ash-tree, and improvement of the same on Greek principles | 10 |
| " | IV. | " | 7. Window in Dunblane Cathedral | 15 |
| " | V. | " | 8. Mediæval turret | 20 |
| " | VI. | " | 9. and 10. Lombardic towers | 22 |
| " | VII. | " | 11. and 12. Spires at Coutances and Rouen | 25 |
| " | VIII. | " | 13. and 14. Illustrative diagrams | 39 |
| " | IX. | " | 15. Sculpture at Lyons | 40 |
| " | X. | " | 16. Niche at Amiens | 41 |
| " | XI. | " | 17. and 18. Tiger's head, and improvement of the same on Greek principles | 44 |
| " | XII. | " | 19. Garret window in Hotel de Bourgtheroude | 51 |
| " | XIII. | " | 20. and 21. Trees, as drawn in the 13th century | 81 |
| " | XIV. | " | 22. Rocks, as drawn by the school of Leonardo da Vinci | 83 |
| " | XV. | " | 23. Boughs of trees, after Titian | 84 |
PREFACE.
The following Lectures are printed, as far as possible, just as they were delivered. Here and there a sentence which seemed obscure has been mended, and the passages which had not been previously written, have been, of course imperfectly, supplied from memory. But I am well assured that nothing of any substantial importance which was said in the lecture-room, is either omitted, or altered in its signification; with the exception only of a few sentences struck out from the notice of the works of Turner, in consequence of the impossibility of engraving the drawings by which they were illustrated, except at a cost which would have too much raised the price of the volume. Some elucidatory remarks have, however, been added at the close of the second and fourth Lectures, which I hope may be of more use than the passages which I was obliged to omit.
The drawings by which the Lectures on Architecture were illustrated have been carefully reduced, and well transferred to wood by Mr. Thurston Thompson. Those which were given in the course of the notices of schools of painting could not be so transferred, having been drawn in color; and I have therefore merely had a few lines,