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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 543

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ulpture employee]upon them. § xxiii. As the scale of Plate III. is necessarily small, I havegiven three of the sculptured triangles on a larger scale mPlate IV. opposite. Fig. 3 is one of the four in the lowerseries of Plate IV., and figs. 4 and 5 from another group. 6. h. i. h. g. h. i. h. 5. b c.… … Plate IV.—Sculptures of Murano. MURANO. 47 The forms of the trefoils are here seen more clearly ; they,Mild all the other portions of the design, are thrown out in lowand flat relief, the intermediate spaces being cut out to thedepth of about a quarter of an inch. I believe these vacantspaces were…

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