Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 281
(PlataXIV., above) ; the point of the Gothic arch forcing itself up,as it were, through the top of the semicircle which it was soonto supersede. § XXVII. The woodcut. Fig. XXVI., represents the door andtwo of the lateral Avindows of a house in the Corte delRemer, facing the Grand Canal, in the… … are contemporary with the building, though it must alwayshave had an access of the kind. The rest of its aspect isByzantine, except only that the rich sculptures of its archivolfcshow in combats of animals, beneath the soffit, a beginning ofthe Gothic fire and eneigy. The moulding of its plinth is…
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