The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

7. Casa Loredan, upper arcade. 15. St. Mark's.

[49] Compare "Seven Lamps," chap. ii. ยง 22. [50] Two of these are represented in the second number of my folio work upon Venice. [51] The absence of the true grotesque spirit in Byzantine work will be examined in the third chapter of the third volume. [52] Ezekiel, xxvii. 11. [53] Perhaps this type is in no place of Scripture more touchingly used than in Lamentations, i. 12, where the word "afflicted" is rendered in the Vulgate "vindemiavit," "vintaged." [54] Appendix 12, "Modern Painting on Glass." [55] 2 Samuel, xiii. 18. SECOND, OR GOTHIC, PERIOD.