Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 287
nsequently of shadow; but thonarrow cusi^ 4 occurs also in veryearly work, and is piquant whenset beneath a bold flat archivolt,as in Fig. V, ojDposite, from theCorte del Forno at Santa Marina.The pierced cusp gives a peculiar lightness and brilliancy tothe window, but is not so sublime. In the… … d APPENDIX. 259 Plate XI. The recesses on the sides of the other cusps indi-cate their single or double lines of fohation. The cusp of theDucal Palace has a fillet only round its edge, and a ball ofred marble on its truncated point and is pei-fect in its grandsimplicity ; but in general the cusps…
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