The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 162
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, of St, Makks. BYZANTINE PALACES. 1S9 of the one of these Hnes into the other is productive of themost exquisite and wonderful series of curvatures possiblewithin such compass, no two views of the capital giving thesame contour. Upon these profoundly studied outlines, as…
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