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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, Smith, Elder, and co. · leaf 277

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Plate XI.The recesses on the sides of the other cusps indicate their single ordouble lines of foliation. The cusp of the Ducal Palace has a fillet onlyround its edge, and a ball of red marble on its truncated point, and isperfect in its grand simplicity; but in general the cusps of Venice arefar… … cusps. 10. FINAL APPENDIX. 249 fourth order. The two series, 4 a to &e, and 5 a to 5 e, in Plate XIV.Vol. II., are arranged so as show this connexion, as well as the varietiesof curvature in the trefoiled arches of the fourth and fifth orders, which,though apparently slight on so small a scale,…

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