The sea-storiesJ. Wiley, 1873 - Architecture |
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Page 10
... lower and slippery steps : and the highest tides some- times enter the courtyards , and overflow the entrance halls . Eighteen inches more of difference between the level of the flood and ebb would have rendered the doorsteps of every ...
... lower and slippery steps : and the highest tides some- times enter the courtyards , and overflow the entrance halls . Eighteen inches more of difference between the level of the flood and ebb would have rendered the doorsteps of every ...
Page 17
... lower range is not acanthus at all , but a kind of vine , or at least that species of plant which stands for vine in all early Lombardic and Byzantine work ( vide Vol . I. Appendix 8. ) ; the leaves are trefoiled , and the stalks cut ...
... lower range is not acanthus at all , but a kind of vine , or at least that species of plant which stands for vine in all early Lombardic and Byzantine work ( vide Vol . I. Appendix 8. ) ; the leaves are trefoiled , and the stalks cut ...
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... lower story being formed by a thick mass of wall lightened by ordinary semicircular round - headed niches , like those used so extensively afterwards in renaissance architec- ture , each niche flanked by a pair of shafts standing clear ...
... lower story being formed by a thick mass of wall lightened by ordinary semicircular round - headed niches , like those used so extensively afterwards in renaissance architec- ture , each niche flanked by a pair of shafts standing clear ...
Page 43
... lower band , which is fortunately left in its original state , as is sufficiently proved by the curious niceties in the arrange- ment of its colors , which are assuredly to be attributed to the care of the first builder . A word or two ...
... lower band , which is fortunately left in its original state , as is sufficiently proved by the curious niceties in the arrange- ment of its colors , which are assuredly to be attributed to the care of the first builder . A word or two ...
Page 44
... lower band . I could not succeed in expressing the variation and chequering of color in marble , by real tints in the print ; and have been content , therefore , to give them in line engraving . The dif ferent triangles are , altogether ...
... lower band . I could not succeed in expressing the variation and chequering of color in marble , by real tints in the print ; and have been content , therefore , to give them in line engraving . The dif ferent triangles are , altogether ...
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Page 75 - their bluest veins to kiss" — the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross; and above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language and of...
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Page 72 - Here, at the fruiterer's, where the dark-green water-melons are heaped upon the counter like cannon balls, the Madonna has a tabernacle of fresh laurel leaves ; but the pewterer next door has let his lamp out, and there is nothing to be seen in his shop but the dull gleam of the studded patterns on the copper pans, hanging from his roof in the darkness. Next comes a " Vendita Frittole e Liquori...
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