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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, Smith, Elder, and co. · leaf 137

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III. GROTESQUE RENAISSANCE. 125 symbols with which it is invested being statues of angelsblowing brazen trumpets, intended to express the spreading ofthe fame of the Barbaro family in heaven. At the top of thechurch is Venice crowned, between Justice and Temperance,Justice holding a pair of grocers…

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