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The stones of Venice (1890)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 124
make it appear to thespectator from the nave as if the apse were sustained by sin-gle shafts, of inordinate slenderness. The attempt is illjudged, and the result unsatisfactory. § xxviii. 2. When these pairs of shafts come near eachother, as frequently at the turnings of angles (Fig. XVII.), the… … ® © Fig. XVII. St. Marks,have never from the Broletto of Como ; at theangle of St. Michele of Lucca, PlateXXI. ; and in the balustrade ofThis is a group, however, which Iseen used on a large scale.* § xxix. 3. Such groups, consolidated by asmall square in their centre, form the shafts ofSt. Zeno,…Architecture
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