Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Orpington, Kent : George Allen · leaf 317
Plate XI.The recesses on the sides of the other cusps indicate their single ordouble lines of foliation. The cusp of the Ducal Palace has a fillet onlyround its edge, and a ball of red marble on its truncated point, and isperfect in its grand simplicity; but in general the cusps of Venice arefar… … cusps. II. ADDITIONAL NOTES. 263 fourth order. The two series, 4 a to 4 e, and 5 a to 5 e} in Plate XIV.,Vol. II., are arranged so as to show this connection, as well as the varie-ties of curvature in the trefoiled arches of the fourth and fifth orders,which, though apparently slight on so small a…
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