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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 780

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ines of the opposite Plate(XVII.), I have arranged some of the more delicate and fin-ished examples of Gothic work of this period. Of these, fig.4 is taken from the outer arcade of San Fermo of Verona, toshowT the condition of mainland architecture, from which allthese Venetian types were borrowed.… … Plate XVII.—Windows of the Early Gothic Palaces, GOTHIC PALACES. 259 parison. Throughout the streets of Verona, arches and win-dows of the thirteenth century are of continual occurrence,wrought, in this manner, with brick and stone ; sometimesthe brick alternating with the stones of the arch, as in…

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