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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 764

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to imply peeminence or isolation in these groups.Thus I may rationally speak or the six orders of Venetian windows, pro-vided I am ready to allow a French architect to speak of the six orseven, or eight, or seventy or eighty, orders of Norman windows, if somany are distinguishable ; and so also we… … GOTHIC PALACES. 249 § xxv. We shall now be able, without any difficulty, to fol-low the course of transition, beginning with the first order,1 and 1 a, in the second row. The horse-shoe arch, 1 b, is thedoor-head commonly associated with it, and the other three inthe same row occur in St. Marks…

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