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The stones of Venice (1886)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Orpington, Kent : George Allen · leaf 297

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ifyingByzantine work, the archivolt mouldings being so similar among them-selves, and so unlike any others. We have next to examine the Gothicforms. Figs. 13 and 14 in Plate VIII. represent the first brick mouldings ofthe transitional period, occurring in such instances as Fig. XXIII. or… … R.P. Cuff. J. Ruskm. iv. archivolts. IO. FINAL APPENDIX. 253 two brick mouldings are repeated, for the sake of comparison, at the topof Plate IX. opposite; and the upper range of mouldings which theycommence, in that plate, are the brick mouldings of Venice in the earlyGothic period. All the forms…

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