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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 158

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Plate IX. § XXIV, These capitals, called barbarous by our architects,are without exception the most subtle pieces of composition inbroad contour which I have ever met with in architecture.Their profile is given in the opposite Plate X. fig. 8, b ; theinner line in the figure being that of the stone… … ^ l<^?

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