The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 248
ip-tive of the most perfect conditions both of the simple arch andof the traceries by which, in later Gothic, it is filled ; and thisfoliation is an essential character of the style. No Gothic iseither good or characteristic which is not foliated either in itsarches or apertures. Sometimes the… … FiG. XYIII. 222 TEE STONES OF VENIGB, ment of foliation must enter somewhere, or the style is impei>feet. And our final definition of Gothic will, therefore, standthus :— Foliated Architecture, which uses the pointed arch forthe roof proper, and the gable for the roof-mask. § xcix. And now there…
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