Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 299
nament was byno means the reason of its invention. The Venetian dentil is aparticular application (consequent on the incrusted characterof Venetian architecture) of the general idea of dentil, whichhad been originally given by the Greeks, and realised both bythem and by the Byzantines in many… … Fig. LVHI. THE EDGE AND FILLET. 271 glassical dentil ; and of the gradual transition to the moreconvenient and simple type, the running-hand dentil, whichafterwards became the characteristic of Venetian Gothic.No. 13 * is the common dentiled cornice, which occurs re-peatedly in St. Marks ; and, as…
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