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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, Smith, Elder, and co. · leaf 276

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on themain walls of the palaces themselves. They occur on the DucalPalace, on the Casa d Oro, and, some years back, were stillstanding on the Fondaco de Turchi; but the majority of theGothic palaces have the plain dog-tooth cornice under the tiledprojecting roof (Vol. I. Chap. XIV. § IV.) ; and the… … represents, at h, part of a parapet of this kind which surroundsthe court-yard of a palace in the Calle del Bagatin, betweenSan G. Grisostomo and San Canzian: the whole is of brick, andthe mouldings peculiarly sharp and varied; the height of eachseparate pinnacle being about four feet, crowning a…

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