Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York: John Wiley · leaf 341
to the imagination, space of which the conceptionis opposed, and gives more effect by its opposition, to the en-closing power of the wall itself, (this I spoke of as probably thegreat charm of these horizontal bars to the Arabian mind) : andagain they are valuable in their suggestion of the natural… … decoration. XXVI. THE WALL VEIL AND SHAFT. 299 best colourists, without a single exception, depend upon it forthe most piquant of their pictorial effects, some vigorous mass ofalternate stripes or bars of colour being made central in all theirrichest arrangements. The whole system of Tintorets…
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