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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 89

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at work ; and this will be one ofthe principal evidences which I shall use in detecting Lombardinfluence on Arab work; for the true Byzantine and Arabmouldings are all open to the sky and. light, but the Lombardsbrought with them from the North the fear of rain, and in all theLombardic Gothic we…

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