The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 116
lpture in thespandrils is not more than an inch and a half deep, rarely somuch. It is in fact nothing more than an exquisite sketchingof outlines in marble, to about the same depth as in the Elginfrieze; the draperies, however, being filled with close folds,in the manner of the Byzantine pictures,… … Plate VI.—The Vine. Free, and in Service. ST. MAliKS. 99 by broad and simple spaces, like that obtained by the scrollin the hand of the prophet, seen in the plate. The balls in the archivolt project considerably, and the in-terstices between their interwoven bands of marble are filledwith colors…
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