Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 139
cularshafts only : those of square piers are more frequently formedby the cornice only ; otherwise they are like those of circularpiers, without the difficulty of reconciling the base of thebell with its head. § xxvi. When two or more shafts are grouped together,their capitals are usually treated… … ceives decoration, as the bellof the capital, which it didnot receive as the undeistone of the cornice. Fig. XXVII. In Fig. XXVIII, a littlebit of the church of SantaFosca at Torcello, the cor-nice or string course, whichgoes round every part olthe church, is not strongenough to form the capitalsof…
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