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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 112

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thespandrils is not more than an inch and a half deep, rarely somuch. It is in fact nothing more than an exquisite sketchingof outlines in marble, to about tlie same depth as in the Elginfrieze ; tlie draj^eries, however, being filled with close f(^lds,in the manner of the Byzantine pictures, folds… … Plail. M.—The Vine. Free, and in Service. ST. MARKS. 99 by broad aucl simple spaces, like that obtained b} the scrollill the hand of the prophet, seen in the jjlate. The balls in the archivolt jDroject considerably-, and the in-terstices between theu interwoven bands of marble are filledwith colors…

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