Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 340
, then without, giving the convex cornice. In all thefigures, a, b, c, d, Plate XV., the dotted line is at the sameslope, and represents an average profile of the root of cornices(a, Fig. V., p. 75) ; the curve of the salvia leaf is applied to itin each case, first with its roundest curvature up,… … Pt,ate XV.—Cornice Profiles. THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL. 301 nices in the world ; represent them, I mean, as central types;for in any of the profiles an infinite number of slopes may begiven to the dotted line of the root (which in these four fig-ures is always at the same angle); and on each of these…
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