St. Mark's rest : the history of Venice written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments (1885)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 403
meter of its head or abacus, and f d thesemi-diameter of its shaft. 74 THE ELEMENTS OF PERSPECTIVE. Let the shaft be circular, and the abacus square, down tothe level e. Join B D, E F, and produce them to meet in o. Therefore e c g is the semi profile of a reversed pyramidcontaining the capital.… … Fio. 59. Fio. 60. A B in Fig. 60. Make e g equal to c 6, and e d equal to c d.Draw D F to the vanishing-point of the diagonal d v (the fig-ure is too small to include this vanishing-point), and f is thelevel of the point f in Fig. 60., on the side of the pyramid. Draw f wi, f n, to the…
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