Val d'Arno; ten lectures on the Tuscan art directly antecedent to the Florentine year of victories; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1873 (1891)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, author of introduction, etc · New York : Charles E. Merrill & Co. · leaf 153
of St. Zenowished to depend for your entertainment. 144. Perhaps you may most clearly under-stand the real connection between structureand decoration by considering all architectureas a kind of book, which must be properlybound indeed, and in which the illuminationof the pages has distinct… … •The Door of the Baptistery. VI.—MARBLE COUCHANT. 121 which Niccola was occupied upon, when a boy,under his Byzantine master. Here is the door ofthe Baptistery at Pisa, again by Mr. Severn de-lightfully enlarged for us from a photograph.*The general idea of it is a square-headed open-ing in a solid…
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