The Seven Lamps of Architecture/Index

by John Ruskin

INDEX

1. Abbeville, 131
2. Abstraction, 128
3. Agreeableness, sources of, in ornament, 55
4. Animals, architecture of, 46
5. Anselm's Tower, Canterbury, 65
6. Antwerp Cathedral, 131
7. Architectural deceits, 37
8. Architecture, a political art, 2; to be distinguished from building, 8; the five heads of, 10; value of appearance of labour upon, 23; ornament in, 28 sqq.; violations of truth in, 36; metallic construction in, 42; of animals, 46; nobleness in, 54; fall of medieval, 69; imitates natural forms, 72; broad divisions of, 79; and painting, 87; mass and interval in, 88; domestic, 104; and primal forms, 111; ornamentation in, 121; proportion and abstraction in, 128 sqq.; colour and form in, 143; system of decoration in, 148 sqq.; finish in, 160; living, 167; and memory, 186; and posterity, 194; preservation and restoration in, 203 sqq.; and law, 215; and national employment, 220.
9. Area, 79
10. Art, life and deadness in, 157
11. Audacity in imitation, 159
12. Authority in style, 216
13. Avranches, cathedral, 206
14. Beauty, 106; and frequency, 109
15. Beauvais, cathedral, 40, 75
16. Bologna, Palazzo Pepoli at, 57
17. Bounding-line, 77
18. British Museum, 50
19. Brunelleschi, 43
20. Building and architecture, 8
21. Byzantine architecture, 90
22. Caen, Abbaye aux Hommes at, 60
23. Certosa, of Pavia, 27
24. Champagnole, reminiscence of, 184
25. Chaucer, quoted, 228
26. Church furniture, 50
27. Cinque cento, 141
28. Cis-Alpine Gothic, 92
29. Clouds, philosophy of art of, 38
30. Coleridge, quoted, 230
31. Colleone chapel at Bergamo, 27
32. Colour, how attained, 1; in sculpture, 142; and form, 141
33. Colour-mosaic, 182
34. Concavities, 101
35. Conscientiousness in art, 36
36. Conspicuousness, 50
37. Correggio, 146, 200
38. Coutances, 60
39. Coxcombry, architectural, 141
40. Crystals, 110
41. Cube, the, 112
42. Curves, 111
43. Decoration, law of, 123; system of, 148
44. Derivative and original, 72
45. Design, divisions of, 85
46. Deuteronomy, quoted, 14
47. Diffusion of light, 91
48. Domestic Gothic, 99
49. Doric and Venetian styles, 99
50. Dovetailing, 45
51. Drapery, 116
52. Ductility, 64
53. Dürer, 115
54. Eastlake, Sir Charles, 89, 139
55. Energies of man, duality in, 155
56. Enjoyment, the test of, 181
57. Erechtheum, 111
58. Eu, 60
59. Failure, philosophy of, 1
60. Festoons, 117
61. Finish, 160
62. Florence, campanile of Giotto at, 26 sqq.; Palazzo Vecchio at, 58
63. Flying buttress, 40
64. Foil, 96
65. 'Fold', 210
66. Frankness in imitation, 158
67. French Flamboyant, 79, 218
68. French Gothic, 61, 69
69. Frequency, 109
70. Garlands, 117
71. Gesso, 86
72. Ghiberti, 115, 121
73. Gilding, 52
74. Giorgione, 142
75. Giotto's campanile, 26 sqq.
76. Glass, management of, 96
77. God in human affairs, reverential reference to, 6; offerings to, 12; obeys His own laws, 46
78. Gothic architecture, causes of fall of, 59
79. Gravitation, 116
80. Greek fret, 110
81. Height, 79
82. Heraldic decoration, 113
83. Herbert, George, quoted, 6, 231
84. Historical purpose, in public buildings, 191
85. Honesty, principle of, 25
86. Hope, Mr., 39
87. House-fronts, 124
88. Idleness, 220–1
89. Idolatry, 15
90. Imagination, action of, 34; distinguished from deception, 35
91. Imitation, how to be rendered vital, 158
92. Imitation jewellery, 56
93. Imitative forms, 107
94. Impatience, value of, 163
95. India House, 193
96. Inscriptions, 114
97. Intersectional mouldings, 60
98. Invention, 73
99. Iron, use of, 41
100. Italian traceries, 95
101. John, quoted, 20
102. Kings, quoted, 15
103. King's College Chapel, 39, 130
104. Lamentations, quoted, 15
105. Law essential to art, etc., 215
106. Laws of right, irrefragable, 3
107. Levitical sacrifice, considerations of the, 13 sqq.
108. Liberty, 208
109. Lies, kinds of, 32
110. Lindsay, Lord, 160
111. Line and mass, in decoration, 62
112. Linear division, 85
113. Lisieux, 60, 204
114. Living architecture, 167
115. Lombard Romanesque, 82
116. London Bridge, 127
117. London shops, 124
118. Loyalty, 210
119. Lucca, San Michele of, 91, 95, 96, 103
120. Malachi, quoted, 14
121. Marble facing, 53
122. Masonry, 83
123. Mass, 88; and majesty, 102
124. Material, false representation of, 49
125. Merton College, 97
126. Metals, architectural laws of, 43
127. Michael Angelo, 47, 200
128. Milan Cathedral, 47
129. Milton, 89
130. Ministry to the poor, 17
131. Mino da Fiesole, 178
132. Modern Painters, quoted, 23
133. Modern work, characteristic inadequacy of, 22
134. Monochrom figures, 151
135. Monstrification, 109
136. Moral and practical, connexion between their spheres, 4
137. Motto in heraldic decoration, the, 113
138. Mouldings, 100
139. Nature and Architecture, 73
140. Northern Gothic, 131
141. Numbers, quoted, 18
142. Operative deceit, 55
143. 'Ornament cannot be overcharged,' 28
144. Ornament, the place for, 121
145. Padua, Eremitani at, 60, 98
146. Painted Window, the, 149
147. Painting, legitimate subjects of, 48
148. Parasitical sublimity, 197
149. Parma, Camera di Correggio at, 48
150. Parthenon, sculptures of, 199
151. Perpendicular, 79
152. Perugino, 115
153. 'Picturesque,' 196
154. Pisa, Campo Santo at, 48, 96; cathedral, 82, 163; tower of, 134, 166; Baptistery at, 204
155. Plagiarism, 159
156. Plantain, 134
157. Poetry and architecture conquer forgetfulness, 186
158. Portcullis, the, 112
159. Positive shade in painting and architecture, 86
160. Posterity, 194
161. Prato cathedral, 46
162. Proportion, 128
163. Psalms, quoted, 18
164. Railroad-station, the, 125
165. Railways, consequences of, 221–2
166. Raphael, 115
167. Rembrandtism, 87
168. Restoration, 203 sqq.
169. Reticulation, 112, 147
170. Riband, the, 114
171. Romanism, abuse and fallacy of, 20, 225–6
172. Rouen, cathedral, illustrations from, 25, 28, 42, 131; Palais de Justice at, 204
173. Rubens, 146, 201
174. St. Maclou at Rouen, 175, 227
175. St. Madeleine at Paris, 84
176. St. Ouen at Rouen, 40
177. St. Paul's Cathedral, 118
178. St. Peter's at Rome, 74, 93
179. St. Sophia, Constantinople, 39
180. Samuel, quoted, 14
181. Self-sacrifice, 11
182. Serenity, 93
183. Shadow, decoration by, 97
184. Shop-fronts, 50
185. Sin, moral considerations of, 32
186. Sistine chapel, 47
187. Size, rules of, 76
188. Sky, philosophy of art of, 39
189. Spruce fir, 94
190. Strasburg, 131
191. Structural deceits, 37
192. Subordination, 137
193. Support, conditions of, 39
194. Surface deceits, 46
195. Sympathy, in architecture, 73
196. Thinking in shadow, 87
197. Tintoret, 142, 201
198. Titian, 146
199. Tour de Beurre, Rouen, 27
200. Tracery, rise of, 60
201. Tudor style, 147
202. Unseen work, 24
203. Van Eyck, 213
204. Veneering, 53
205. Venetian Gothic, 92
206. Venice, Doge's palace at, 81, 96; house in Campo St. Benedetto at, 141; house at head of Grand Canal at, 190
207. Vercelli, 57
208. Verona, 25, 98
209. Veronese, 146
210. Vicenza, house at, 190
211. Visibility, 25
212. Whitewash, 51
213. Willis, Professor, 60
214. Window, as exponent of power, 119
215. Wood, J., 169
216. Wyatt, Mr. Digby, 230