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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 359

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are not so,here, is that the decoration, in-stead of being confined to thespur, is now sj^read over the whole mass, and contours aratherefore given to the intermediate curves Avhich fit them forthis ornament; the inside shaded space being the head of theshaft, and the outer, the abacus. The reader… … Pig. LXVI. THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL. 32.? animal forms, or the incisious between tbem multiplied, forricher effect ; and in our own Norman capital the type c ofFig. XXn. is variousl} subdivided by incisions on its slope,approximating in general etlect to many conditions of the realspurred type, e,…

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