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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York: John Wiley · leaf 131

An illustration from The stones of Venice, 1851, leaf 131 — cornice which was gathered together to producethe capital was the root of cornices, a of Fig. Y. But this, it willbe remembered, was said in § vi. of Chap. YI. to be especiallycharacteristic of southern work, and that in northern and wetclimates it took the form of a dripstone. Accordingly, in the… … CONSTRUCTION. IX. THE CAPITAL. Ill

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