Chimney at Neuchatel; Dent du Midi and Mont Blanc in
the distance 20
" 10. Petrarch's Villa, Arqua, 1837. (Redrawn from the
Architectural Magazine) 98
" 11. Broken Curves. (Three diagrams, redrawn from the
Architectural Magazine) 101
" 12. Old English Mansion, 1837. (Reproduced from the
Architectural Magazine) 116
" 13. Windows. (Three designs, reproduced from the
Architectural Magazine) 122
" 14. Leading Lines of Villa-Composition. (Diagram redrawn
from the Architectural Magazine) 164
PREFATORY NOTES.
Of this work Mr. RUSKIN says in his Autobiography:--"The idea had come
into my head in the summer of '37, and, I imagine, rose immediately out
of my sense of the contrast between the cottages of Westmoreland and
those of Italy. Anyhow, the November number of Loudon's _Architectural
Magazine_ for 1837 opens with 'Introduction to the Poetry of
Architecture; or the Architecture of the Nations of Europe considered in
its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character,' by Kata
Phusin. I could not have put in fewer, or more inclusive words, the
definition of what half my future life was to be spent in discoursing
of; while the _nom-de-plume_ I chose, 'ACCORDING TO NATURE,' was equally
expressive of the temper in which I was to discourse alike on that, and
every other subject.
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