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The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 142

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t had time to prepare plates re--quiring so much labor and care. I must, therefore, explainthe position of their parts in the simplest way in my power. The Fondaco de Turclii has sixteen arches in its sea story>and twenty-six above them in its first story, the whole basedon a magnificent… … At this level, the elevation of one half of the building, fromits flank to the central pillars of its arcades, is rudely given inFig. IV. It is only drawn to show the arrangement of theparts, as the sculptures which are indicated by the circles andupright oblongs between the arches are too delicate…

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