Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 310
in general a tolerably accurate test of the age ofa base, in the degree of its projection. Thus, in the ex-amples 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, the lower roll is hardly roundedat all, and diametrically opposed to the late Gothic conditions,24 to 28, in which it advances gradually, like a wave preparing of… … THE BASE. 281 to break, and at last is actually seen curling over with the long-backed rush of surf upon the shore. Yet the Torcello baseresembles these Gothic ones both in expansion beneath andin depth of cavetto above. § viii. There can be no question of the ineffable superiorityof these Gothic…
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