Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 779
VENICE. plained with respect to the Byzantine palaces. There is acentral shaft, a pilaster on each side, and then the wall. Thepilaster has, by way of capital, a square flat brick, projectinga little, and cast, at the edge, into the form of the first typeof all cornices (a, p. 75, Vol. I. ; the… … Fig. XXXIII. Fig. XXXIV. been much defaced ; but I have not the least doubt that theirplinths are the original ones : and the whole group is one o!the most valuable in Venice, as showing the way in which thehumblest houses, in the noble times, followed out the systemof the larger palaces, as far as…
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