The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 350
xLi. The figures of Adam and Eve, sculptured on eachside of the Fig-tree angle, are more stiff than those of Noahand his sons, but are better fitted for their architectural ser-vice ; and the trunk of the tree, with the angular body of theserpent writhed around it, is more nobly treated as a… … \\ ^^^.-^ Plate XIX.—Leafage of the Vine Angle. i I THE BUCAL PALACE, 309 The Benaissance sculptor of tlie figures of the Judgmentof Solomon has very nearly copied the fig-tree from this angle,placing its trunk between the executioner and the mother,who leans forward to stay his hand. But, though…
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