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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, Smith, Elder, and co. · leaf 258

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Linear aiid Surface Gothic VI. THE NATURE OF GOTHIC. 225 arches are discernible. All the rest of the ornamentation is bossy sculpture, set on the broad marble surface. On the pointof the gable are set the shield and dog-crest of the Scalas, withits bronze wings, as of a dragon, thrown out from it…

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