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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 536

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haveFigs. 39 and 40. These three windows differ entirely in theirfeeling and manner, and are broad examples of such distinctionsof style as might be adopted severally in the habitations of theman of imagination, the man of intellect, and the man of feel-ing. If our alterations have been properly… … 118 THE POETRY OF AROUITEGTURE. upon its ornaments, which should not have a single hard linein them ; and on the gradual, unequal, but intense, depth ofits shadows. Fig. 39 should have all its forms undefined, andpassing into one another, the touches of the chisel light, agrotesque face or feature…

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