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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 246

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p-tive of the most perfect conditions both of the simple arch andof the traceries by which, in later Gothic, it is filled ; and thisfoliation is an essential character of the style. No Gothic iseither good or characteristic which is not foliated either in itsarches or apertures. Sometimes the… … 222 THE STONES OF VENICE, ment of foliation must enter somewhere, or the st^le is impervfeet. And our final definition of Gothic will, therefore, standthus:— Foliated Architecture, which uses the pointed arch forthe roof proijer, and the gable for the roof-mask. § xcix. And now there is but one…

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