The stones of Venice : [With appendices, additional notes, and "Venetian index."] (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes & Lauriat · leaf 285
andconsequently of shadow; but thenarrow cusp 4 occurs also in veryearly work, and is piquant whenset beneath a bold flat archivolt,as in Fig. V. opposite, from theCorte del Fomo at Santa Marina.The pierced cusp gives a peculiar lightness and brilHancy tothe window, but is not so sublime. In the… … Fig. TV. APPENDIX. 259 Plate XL The recesses on the sides of the other cusps indi-cate their single or double lines of foHation. The cusp of theDucal Palace has a fillet only round its edge, and a ball ofred marble on its truncated point and is perfect in its grandsimplicity ; but in general the…
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