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

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : Smith, Elder · leaf 269

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ven these generally used onthe main walls of the palaces themselves. They occur on theDucal Palace, on tbe Casa d Oro, and, some years back, werestill standing on the Fondaco de Turchi; but the majority ofthe Gothic Palaces have the plain dog-tooth cornice under thetiled projecting roof (Vol L… … Fig. XXIII. XXIII. represents, at b, part of a parapet of this kind whichsurrounds the court-yard of a palace in the Calle del Bagatin,between San G. Grisostomo, and San Canzian : the whole isof brick, and the monldings peculiarly sharp and varied ; theheight of each separate pinnacle being about…

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