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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 370

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between them multiplied, forricher effect; and in our own Norman capital the type c ofFig. XXII. is variously subdivided by incisions on its slope,approximating in general effect to many conditions of the realspurred type, e, but totally differing from them in principle. § xliii. The treatment of… … Fig. LXVII. Fig. LXVIII. a curling tendril or concave leaf, which supports the project-ing angle of a four-sided abacus, whose hollow sides fall backbehind the bell, and have generally a rosette or other orna-ment in their centres. The mediaeval architects often putanother square abacus above all,…

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