Category: Architecture
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
PREFACE 213 LECTURE I. 217 LECTURE II. 248 ADDENDA to Lectures I. and II. 270 LECTURE III. Turner and his Works 287 LECTURE IV. Pre-Raphaelitism 311 ADDENDA to Lecture IV. 334
Chapters
1. CHAPTER VII.
PREFACE 213 LECTURE I. 217 LECTURE II. 248 ADDENDA to Lectures I. and II. 270 LECTURE III. Turner and his Works 287 LECTURE IV. Pre-Raphaelitism 311 ADDENDA to Lecture IV. 334
2. CHAPTER I.I. Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man for whatsoever uses, that the sight of them contributes to his mental health, power and pleasure.
3. CHAPTER II.I. There is a marked likeness between the virtues of man and the enlightenment of the globe he inhabits--the same diminishing gradation in vigor up to the limits of their domain...
4. CHAPTER III.I. In recalling the impressions we have received from the works of man, after a lapse of time long enough to involve in obscurity all but the most vivid, it often happens that w...
5. CHAPTER IV.I. It was stated, in the outset of the preceding chapter, that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters: the one, the impression it receives from human powe...
6. CHAPTER V.I. Among the countless analogies by which the nature and relations of the human soul are illustrated in the material creation, none are more striking than the impressions insepa...
7. CHAPTER VI.I. Among the hours of his life to which the writer looks back with peculiar gratitude, as having been marked by more than ordinary fulness of joy or clearness of teaching, is on...
8. CHAPTER VII.I. It has been my endeavor to show in the preceding pages how every form of noble architecture is in some sort the embodiment of the Polity, Life, History, and Religious Faith o...