Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 300
eneral a tolerably accurate test of the age ofa base, in the degree of its jirojection. Thus, in the ex-am])les 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, the lower roll is hardly roundedat all, and diametrically opposed to the late Gothic conditions,24 to 28, in which it advances giadually, like a wave preparing of… … Plate X.—Profiles of Bases. THE BASE. 281 to break, and at last is actually seen curling over with the long-backed rush of surf upon the shore. Yet the Torcello baseresembles these Gothic ones both in expansion beneath audin depth of cavetto above. § xm. There can be no question of the ineffable…
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