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

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 64

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change in itsproportions. The two are separated, as seen in the little wood-cut on the opposite page, by a string-course composed of twolayers of red bricks, of which the uppermost projects as acornice, and is sustained by an intermediate course of irregu- * The intention is farther confirmed by… … MURANO. 49 lar brackets, obtained by setting the tliick yellow bricks edge-ways, in the manner common to this day, But the wall aboveis carried up perpendicularly from this projection, so that thewhole upper band is advanced to the thickness of a brick overthe lower one. The result of this is,of…

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