Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 598
lpture in thespandrils is not more than an inch and a half deep, rarely somuch. It is in fact nothing more than an exquisite sketchingof outlines in marble, to about the same depth as in the Elginfrieze ; the draperies, however, being filled with close folds,in the manner of the Byzantine pictures,… … ST. MARKS. 09 by broad and simple spaces, like that obtained by the scrollin the hand of the prophet, seen in the plate. The balls in the archivolt project considerably, and the in-terstices between their interwoven bands of marble are rilledwith colors like the illuminations of a manuscript;…
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