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" Neither by the public, nor by those who have the care of public monuments, is the true meaning of the word restoration understood. It means the most total destruction which a building can suffer... "
The book of the Axe - Page 137
by George Philip R. Pulman - 1875 - 906 pages
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - Architecture - 1925 - 506 pages
...nor by those who have the care of public Restonition monuments, is the true meaning of the thTtorst" word restoration understood. It means the most total...accompanied with false description of the thing destroyed. 54 Do not let us deceive ourselves in this important matter; it is impossible, as impossible as to...
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The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural ...

M. Christine Boyer - Architecture - 1994 - 580 pages
...agree with Viollet-le-Duc, for "restoration," he warned as early as 1849, meant just the opposite. It means the most total destruction which a building...accompanied with false description of the thing destroyed.* [*False, also, in the manner of parody, — the most loathsome manner of falsehood. (1880 addition)]...
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The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution

Dario Gamboni - Art - 1997 - 424 pages
...Ruskin in The Seven Lamps of Architecture of 1849. In his view, 'restorative vandalism' was a pleonasm: 'Neither by the public nor by those who have the care...be gathered: a destruction accompanied with false descriptions of the thing destroyed.'25 The importance of this interpretation for the history of the...
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Politics and Preservation: A Policy History of the Built Heritage, 1882-1996

John Delafons - Architecture - 1997 - 236 pages
...modern times'. Then he launches into five pages of sustained attack on the practice of restoration: 1t means the most total destruction which a building...suffer: a destruction out of which no remnants can he gathered: a destruction accompanied with false description of the thing destroyed. Do not let us...
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Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750-1850

Margaret Ponsonby - History - 2007 - 244 pages
...encapsulated the attitude to preservation to be taken in England. Restoration was, Ruskin claimed: the most total destruction which a building can suffer:...be gathered: a destruction accompanied with false descriptions of the thing destroyed. Do not let us deceive ourselves in this important matter; it is...
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity

Brian J. Graham, Peter Howard - Science - 2008 - 492 pages
...expressed these ideas with 'The Lamp of Memory' in The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Ruskin, 1849): Neither by the public, nor by those who have the care...meaning of the word restoration understood. It means the total destruction which a building can suffer: a destruction out of which no remnants can be gathered;...
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The Cambridge Movement: The Ecclesiologists and the Gothic Revival

James F. White, James Floyd White - Anglican church buildings - 1962 - 308 pages
...Lamps of Architecture appeared in 1849 and left little doubt as to Ruskin's opinion on restoration: Neither by the public, nor by those who have the care...remnants can be gathered: a destruction accompanied with fake description of the thing destroyed. Do not let us deceive ourselves in this important matter;...
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Culture - 1996

Magazine - Vol. 16, No. 1 - 136 pages
...those who utterly rejected the very notion, holding with Ruskin (1989 [1880]: 194) that restoration "means the most total destruction which a building...accompanied with false description of the thing destroyed." This perspective fuelled the outrage that greeted, for example, Arthur Evans' partial reconstruction...




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