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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, Smith, Elder, and co. · leaf 269

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d. This form waskept for the Ducal Palace; but instead of round arches from shaftto shaft, the Frari traceries were substituted, with two essentialmodifications. Besides being enormously increased in scale and thickness, that they might betterbear the superincumbent weight, thequatrcfoil, which in…

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