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The stones of Venice : v.2, the sea-stories (1853)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : Smith, Elder · leaf 162

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Plate IX. § xxiv. These capitals, called barbarous by our architects,are without exception the most subtle pieces of composition inbroad contour which I have ever met with in architecture.Their profile is given in the opposite Plate X. fig. 3, b ; theinner line in the figure being that of the stone… … Platk JX..—Lily Capital uf St. Marks.

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