Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 288
upon continuous arcades, among which thesea waves wandered. Hence the thoughts of its builderswere eaily and constantly directed to the incrustation atarches. § xn. In Fig. L\T[. I have given two of these Byzantinestilted arches : the one on the right, a, as they now toooften aj)pear, in its… … Fig. XVII. are mere flat slabs cut to thebut under the soffit of the arch the marble mailis curved, often cut singularly thin, Hke bent tiles, and fittedtogether so that the pieces would sustain each other evenwithout rivets. It is of course desirable that this thin sub-arch of marble should…
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