Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 312
pillars they support have inde-l)endent bases of the ordinary kind ; and the animal form be-neath is less to be considered as a true base (though oftenexquisitely combined with it, as in the shaft on the south-vrest angle of the cathedral of Genoa) than as a piece of sculpt-ure, otherwise necessary… … Pt^ate XII.—Decoratiox of Bases. Tlin WALL VEIL AND SHAFT. 2S9 As the embodiment of a wild superstition, and the represen-tation of supernatural powers, their appeal to the imagina-tion sets at utter defiance all judgment based on ordinarycanons of law; and the magnificence of their…
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