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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, Smith, Elder, and co. · leaf 418

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the lowestrange of leaves in the opposite Plate (XX.) will enable him tojudge of the grounds on which the above statement is made.Fig. 12. is a cluster of leaves from the capital of the FourWinds; early work of the finest time. Fig. 13. is a leaf fromthe great Renaissance capital at the Judgment… … Leafage oi llie Venetian Capitals VUI. THE DUCAL PALACE. 369 that it requires no great ingenuity to distinguish between suchdesign as that of fig. 12. and that of fig. 14. § CXXXI. It is very possible that the reader may at first Hkefig. 14. the best. I shall endeavour, in the next chapter, toshow…

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