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 45
f severest line. No vaulting, no clusteredshafts, no traceries, no fantasies, no perpen-dicular flights of aspiration. Steady pillars,each of one polished block ; useful capitals, onetrefoiled arch between them ; your panel aboveit; thereon your story of the founder of Chris-tianity. The whole… … II. Niccola Fisanos Pulpit, I. NICHOLAS THE PISAN. 19 as symbol of St. John Evangelist only, but be-hold! with prey between its claws. For theGospel, it is Niccolas opinion, is not altogethera message that you may do whatever you like,and go straight to heaven. Finally, a slab ofmarble, cut hollow…
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