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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 59

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lost. Thegroups at the ends of the transepts corresjiond neither innumber nor arrangement; we shall presently see avIia, butmust first examine more closely the treatment of the trianglesthemselves, and tlie nature of the fioral sculpture employedupon them. S XXIII. As the scale of Plate IIT. is… … ij.ATi: IV. — SCUMTIKKS OF Ml KA.NU. MUEAXO. 41 The forms of the trefoils are here seen more clearly; they,and all the other portions of the design,, are thnnvu out iulowand flat relief, the intermediate spaces being cut out to thedepth of about a quarter of an inch. I beheve these vacantspaces…

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