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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 330

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elaborate kind ; and inthese spaces are found the most majestic instances of itstreatment, even to late periods. One of these is the spandrilspace, or the filling be- * Chapter XVII., on Fill-ing of Apertures, the reader will find another of these spacesnoted, called the tympanum, and commonly of… … Fig. LXI. 294 THE STONES OF VENICE. third space described, that between an arch and its protectinggable, approximating generally to the form c, Fig. LXI. § ix. The methods of treating these spaces might alone fur-nish subject for three very interesting essays ; but I shallonly note the most…

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