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The stones of Venice (1851)

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

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ng quite piquant and gro-tesque when compared with one in which the cusps are subduedto the form 5 6., 4 f/ and 4 e are Veronese forms, wonderfuUyeffective and spirited ; the latter occurs at Verona only, butthe former at Venice also. 5 d occurs in Venice, but is veryrare ; and 5 e I found only… … The above particulars are enough to enable the reader tojudge of the distinctness of e\ddence which the details ofVenetian architecture bear to its dates. Farther explanationof the plates would be vainly tedious : but the architect whouses these volumes in Venice will find them of value, hi…

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