Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 348
4. § xu. The figures of Adam and Eve, sculptured on eachside of the Fig-tree angle, are more stiff than those of Noahand his sons, but are better fitted for their architectural ser-vice ; and the trunk of the tree, with the angular body of theserpent writhed around it, is more nobly treated as a… … Plate XIX.—Leafage of the Vine Angle. J THE DUCAL PALACE. 309 The Renaissance sculptor of the figures of the Judgmentof Solomon has very nearly copied the fig-tree from this angle,placing its trunk between the executioner and the mother,who leans forward to stay his hand. But, though the wholegioup…
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