Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 271
t will be seen that the Venetianone is far more simple and severe,yet singularly piquant, the blackpenetrations telling sharply on theplain bioad surface. Far inferiorin beauty, it has yet one point ofsuperiority to that of Abbeville,that it proclaims itself more defi-nitely to be stone. The other… … Fig. XXV. GOTHIC l\iLACES. 245 types. It was built when the German Gothic workmen wereexercising considerable influence over those in Venice, andthere was some chance of the Northern parapet introducingitself. It actually did so, as above shown, in the Casa Conta-rini Fasan, but was for the most…
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