The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 243
to St. Marks consist, as above mentioned, oigreat circular or ogee porches ; underneath which the realopen entrances, in which the valves of the bronze doors play,are square-headed. The mouldings of the jambsof these doors are highly curi-ous, and the most characteristicare therefore represented in… … Fig. I. APPENDIX. 220 I wish the reader especially to note the arbitrary characterof the curves and incisions; all evidently being drawn byhand, none being segments of circles, none like another, noneinfluenced by any visible law. I do not give these mouldingsas beautiful; they are, for the most…
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