Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 646
ed barbarous by our architects,are without exception the most subtle pieces of composition inbroad contour which I have ever met with in architecture.Their profile is given in the opposite Plate X. fig. 3, b ; theinner line in the figure being that of the stone behind the lily,the outer that of the… … BYZANTINE PALACES. 139 of the one of these lines into the other is productive of themost exquisite and wonderful series of curvatures possiblewithin such compass, no two views of the capital giving thesame contour. Upon these profoundly studied outlines, as re-markable for their grace and…
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