Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 245
o St. Marks consist, as above mentioned, ofgreat circular or ogee porches ; underneatli which the realopen entrances, in which the valves of the bronze doors play,are square-headed. The mouldings of the jambsof these doors are highly curi-ous, and the most characteristicare therefore represented in… … Fig. I, APPENnix. 229 I wish tlie reader especially to note the arbitrary characterof the curves and incisions ; all evidently being drawn byhand, none being segments of circles, none like another, noneinfluenced by any visible law. I do not give these mouldingsas beautiful; they are, for the most…
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