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ECF_chapter_19141

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Ruskin John

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Part I

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Chapter

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it

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“In the first place, if the weather is fine, go outside the gate you have just come in at and look above it. Over this door are three of the most precious pieces of sculpture in Venice; her native work, dated; and belonging to the school of severe Gothic which indicates the beginning of her Christian life in understanding of its real claims upon her. St. Leonard on the left, St. Christopher on the right, under Gothic cusped niches. The Madonna in the centre, under a simple gable; the piece of sculpture itself engaged in a rectangular panel, which is the persistent sign of the Greek schools; descending from the Metopes of the Parthenon. You see the infant sprawls on her knee in an ungainly manner: – she herself sits with quiet maiden dignity, but in no manner of sentimental adoration. That is Venetian naturalism; showing their henceforward steady desire to represent things as they really (according to the workman’s notions) might have existed.”

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Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe

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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari

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2023-11-02

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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-713-5/part-i/

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10.30687/978-88-6969-712-8/003

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2724-6620

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2784-8507

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978-88-6969-713-5

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978-88-6969-712-8

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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with fulltext

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open

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yes