The works of John Ruskin . am =0 Hi. 0 ?d EDUCATIONAL SERIES, 1878 149 28. Studies of a Palace at I place next the most beautiful instance I ever sawof the use of these horizontal lines by the Pisans, and ofthe use of inlaid marbles in association with the Gothicforms which they had derived from the North. This palace,on the south side of the Arno, is, I suppose, of the earlyfourteenth century, and especially delightful to me in theproportions of its shafts and arches, and in the treatmentof its decoration; with full trust in the spectators carefulwatchfulness of the slightest variation
The works of John Ruskin . am =0 Hi. 0 ?d EDUCATIONAL SERIES, 1878 149 28. Studies of a Palace at I place next the most beautiful instance I ever sawof the use of these horizontal lines by the Pisans, and ofthe use of inlaid marbles in association with the Gothicforms which they had derived from the North. This palace,on the south side of the Arno, is, I suppose, of the earlyfourteenth century, and especially delightful to me in theproportions of its shafts and arches, and in the treatmentof its decoration; with full trust in the spectators carefulwatchfulness of the slightest variations, venturing all claimupon his admiration on the disposition of four flower-likestars, four coats of arms, and two crosses at the top. The lower drawing is an enlargement of one of thewindows as seen from below. It ought to have been semi-circular ; but I cannot draw from nature otherwise than asshe sits (or stands) to me, and this was the real look of thewindow from the point, steeply beneath it, where I make it quite ri
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