John Ruskin and Architectural Truth: Part I

the Architecture Museum, Ruskin’s student told his contemporaries that ‘they should not be tied down through the earth all the days of their lives by copying eggs and tongue, like so many carving machines, but that they should revel in their own fancies which nature has given them as intellectual beings’. Ashe, like Ruskin, believed that architecture received its dignity from the human mind rather than from man’s industrial capabilities; he was far more concerned with the workers who created the building and considered those who make the actual decoration ‘Art-workmen’.

Notes: John Ruskin, The Nature of Gothic: A Chapter of the Stones of Venice, (Printed for William Morris, London: 1892), 86. Ruskin, 5. Ibid. Ruskin, 31. Ibid. Ibid. Ruskin, 48. Mark Swenarton, Artisans and Architects, (Macmillan Press: London, 1989), 24. Ruskin, preface. Ibid. Michael W. Brooks, John Ruskin and Victorian Architecture, (Rutgers University Press: London, 1987), 76. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Brooks, 214. Ibid. Ibid. Kenneth Clark, ed., Ruskin Today, (Penguin: London, 1982), 234.

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