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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 355

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epresented from 1to 6, in Plate XV. : 1 and 2 are the steps already gained, as inFig. LXELI. ; and in them the profile of cornice used is a ofPlate XV., or a refined condition of b of Fig. V., p. 75 abovaNow, keeping the same refined profile, substitute the conditionof it,/of Fig. V. (and there… … THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL. 313 simplest chamfer on it (a or b, Fig. LIIL, page 261, above),but on the visible side only, and you have fig. 4, Plate XV.(the top stone being made deeper that you may have room tochamfer it). Now this fig. 4 is the profile of Lombardic andVenetian early capitals and…

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