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APPENDIX, 8. 371
of another order, the Composite, which is Ionic and Corinthian
mixed, and fs one of the worst of ten thousand forms referable
to the Corinthian as their head: it may be described as a spoiled
Corinthian. And you may have also heard of another order,
called Tuscan (which is no order at all, but a spoiled Doric): and
of another called Roman Doric, which is Doric more spoiled,
both which are simply among the most stupid variations ever invented upon forms already known. I find also in a French pam^
phlet upon architecture,* as applied to shops and dwelling houses,
a sixth order, the " Ordre Francais," at least as good as any of
the three last, and to be hailed with acclamation, considering
whence it comes, there being usually more tendency on the other
side of the channel to the confusion of " orders" than their multiplication: but the reader will find in the end that there are in
very deed only two orders, of which the Greek, Doric, and Corinthian are the first examples, and they not perfect, nor in anywise
sufficiently representative of the vast families to which they belong; but being the first and the best known, they may properly
be considered as the types of the rest. The essential distinctions
of the two great orders he will find explained in §§ xxxv. and
xxxvi. of Chap. XXVII., and ih the passages there referred to;
but I should rather desire that these passages might be read in the
order in which they occur.
8. THE NORTHERN ENERGY.
I have sketched above, in the First Chapter, the great events
of architectural history in the simplest and fewest words I could;
but this indraught of the Lombard energies upon the Byzantine
rest, like a wild north wind descending into a space of rarified
atmosphere, and encountered by an Arab simoom from the south,
may well require from us some farther attention; for the differ-
ences*in all these schools are more in the degrees of their im-
* L'Artiste en Batiments, par Louis Berteaux: Dijon, 1848. My printer
writes at the side of the page a note, which I insert with thanks:—" This
is not the first attempt at a French order. The writer has a Treatise by
Sebastian Le Clerc, a great man in his generation, which contains a Eoman
order, a Spanish order, which the inventor appears to think very grand,
and a new French order nationalised by the Gallic cock crowing and clapping its wings in the capital."
| Title | The stones of Venice - 1 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000431 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | APPENDIX, 8. 371 of another order, the Composite, which is Ionic and Corinthian mixed, and fs one of the worst of ten thousand forms referable to the Corinthian as their head: it may be described as a spoiled Corinthian. And you may have also heard of another order, called Tuscan (which is no order at all, but a spoiled Doric): and of another called Roman Doric, which is Doric more spoiled, both which are simply among the most stupid variations ever invented upon forms already known. I find also in a French pam^ phlet upon architecture,* as applied to shops and dwelling houses, a sixth order, the " Ordre Francais," at least as good as any of the three last, and to be hailed with acclamation, considering whence it comes, there being usually more tendency on the other side of the channel to the confusion of " orders" than their multiplication: but the reader will find in the end that there are in very deed only two orders, of which the Greek, Doric, and Corinthian are the first examples, and they not perfect, nor in anywise sufficiently representative of the vast families to which they belong; but being the first and the best known, they may properly be considered as the types of the rest. The essential distinctions of the two great orders he will find explained in §§ xxxv. and xxxvi. of Chap. XXVII., and ih the passages there referred to; but I should rather desire that these passages might be read in the order in which they occur. 8. THE NORTHERN ENERGY. I have sketched above, in the First Chapter, the great events of architectural history in the simplest and fewest words I could; but this indraught of the Lombard energies upon the Byzantine rest, like a wild north wind descending into a space of rarified atmosphere, and encountered by an Arab simoom from the south, may well require from us some farther attention; for the differ- ences*in all these schools are more in the degrees of their im- * L'Artiste en Batiments, par Louis Berteaux: Dijon, 1848. My printer writes at the side of the page a note, which I insert with thanks:—" This is not the first attempt at a French order. The writer has a Treatise by Sebastian Le Clerc, a great man in his generation, which contains a Eoman order, a Spanish order, which the inventor appears to think very grand, and a new French order nationalised by the Gallic cock crowing and clapping its wings in the capital." |
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