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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 288

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jiving us asecure date for the central form of these very rare transitionalwindows. For, as it was the palace of the father-in-law ofBajamonte, and the later was old enough to assume the leader-ship of a political faction in 1280,* the date of the accession tothe throne of the Doge Pietro… … Fig. XXXI. variety of its capitals, remains in the little piazza opening tothe Kialto, on the St. Marks side of the Grand Canal. Thehouse faces the bridge, and its second story has been built inthe thirteenth centmy, above a still earlier Byzantine corniceremaining, or jjerhaps introduced from some…

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