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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 553

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early build-ings of Venice are so numerous, and the foreign fragmentsintroduced so innumerable, that I was obliged to leave thequestion doubtful. But one circumstance must be noted,bearing upon it closely. In the woodcut below, Fig. Ill, b is an archivolt of Murano,a one of St. Marks ; the latter… … FlG. III. tions and sculpture. There is not one wThich resembles thatof Murano. But the deep mouldings of Murano are almost exactly simi-lar to those of St. Michele of Pavia, and other Lombardchurches built, some as early as the seventh, others in theeighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. On this…

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