Ruskin's Typology in The Seven Lamps of Architecture — a note to Victorian Types

George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University

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[Note 19, Chapter Three, in print version]

I have discussed Ruskin's application of the legal types from Leviticus to architecture in The Seven Lamps of Architecture and shown how he draws upon sermons which he had heard as a child in The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, [336-41.

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Print version published 1980; web version 1998