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

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : Smith, Elder · leaf 290

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giving us asecure date for the central form of these very rare transitionalwindows. For, as it was the palace of the father-indaw ofBajamonte, and the later was old enough to assume the leader-ship of a political faction in 1280,* the date of the accession tothe throne of the Doge Pietro Gradenigo,… … Fig. XXXI. variety of its capitals, remains in the little piazza ojiening tothe Eialto, on the St. Marks side of the Grand Canal. Thehouse faces the bridge, and its second story has been built inthe thirteenth century, above a still earlier Byzantine corniceremaining, or perhaps introduced from…

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