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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, Smith, Elder, and co. · leaf 280

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was pierced here and therewith holes, and then an interwovenpattern traced on the surface roundthem. The difference in system will beunderstood in a moment by comparingthe uppermost example in the figure atthe side, w^hich is a Northern parapetfrom the Cathedral of Abbeville, withthe lowest, from a… … 246 SECOND IERIOD. broad surface. Far inferior in beauty, it has yet one point ofsuperi(jrity to that of Abbeville, that it proclaims itself moredefinitely to be stone. The other has rather the look of lace. The intermediate figure is a panel of the main balcony of theDucal Palace, and is…

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