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The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."]

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · 1894 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · 25 pictures

John Ruskin's architectural history and criticism of Venetian building, issued in this illustrated American edition by Estes & Lauriat of Boston in 1894 for general readers and students of art. The plates here are numbered comparative charts of cornice and archivolt profiles in solid black silhouette, giving designers a ready stock of curved section shapes, ogee contours and repeating bead forms.

Architecture · Art

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