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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, Smith, Elder, and co. · leaf 297

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r than the middle of the thirteenth century. Another ex-ample, less refined in workmanship, but, if possible, still moreinteresting, owing to the variety of its capitals, remains in thelittle piazza opening to the Rialto, on the St. Marks side of theGrand Canal. The house faces the bridge, and its… … of the second story are of pure third order; four of them arerepresented above, with their flanking pilaster, and capitalsvarying constantly in the form of the flower or leaf introducedbetween their volutes. Venetii An account of the conspiracy of Bajamonte may be found in almost anyitian history ;…

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