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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 289

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tliem and by the Byzantines in many laborious forms, long be-fore there was need of them for arch armor ; and the lowerhalf of Plate IX. will give some idea of the conditions wliichr.,-(,ur in t!ie Komanesquc of Venice, distinctly derived from the … Pig. LVni. THE EDGE AND FILLET. 271 classical dentil ; and of the gradual transition to the moreconvenient and simple type, the running-Land dentil, wbichafterwards became the characteristic of Venetian Gothic.No. 13 * is the common dentiled cornice, which occurs re-peatedly in St. Marks ; and, as…

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