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 758
nt of the next stone on the right, the sculpture of the wings beingcarried across the junction. I have chosen this piece on purpose, be-cause the loss of the broken fragment, probably broken by violence,and the only serious injury whicJi the sculptures have received, servesto show the perfection of… … MARBLE RAMPANT. 79 their materials together, and in which, therefore, balance ofweight becomes a continual and inevitable question. But theschools of sculptural architecture are those in which stonesare fitted without cement,—in which, therefore, the questionolfitting or adjustment is continual and…
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