Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York: John Wiley · leaf 309
wn district that ever I met with ; but has notnoticed the reason for its frequency. It is nevertheless highlyinteresting. The whole early architecture of Venice is architecture of in-crustation : this has not been enough noticed in its peculiar rela-tion to that of the rest of Italy. There is,… … DECORATION. XXIII. THE EDGE AND FILLET. 275 nacre; he built his houses, even the meanest, as if he had beena shell-fish,—-roughly inside, mother-of-pearl on the surface : hewas content, perforce, to gather the clay of the Brenta banks,and bake it into brick for his substance of wall; but he…
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