The book Stones of Venice [introductions] was written by author Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Here you can read free online of Stones of Venice [introductions] book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Stones of Venice [introductions] a good or bad book?
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The old builders kept their images ofthe Virgin subordinate to those of Christ; but modern Romanism hasretrograded from theirs, and the most glittering portions of the wholechurch are the two recesses behind this lateral altar, covered withsilver hearts dedicated to the Virgin. ] SECTION XXI. Indeed, these inferior means of exciting religious emotionwere employed in the ancient Church as they are at this day, but notemployed alone. Torchlight there was, as there is now; but thetorchlight illumi...ned Scripture histories on the walls, which every eyetraced and every heart comprehended, but which, during my wholeresidence in Venice, I never saw one Venetian regard for an instant. Inever heard from any one the most languid expression of interest in anyfeature of the church, or perceived the slightest evidence of theirunderstanding the meaning of its architecture; and while, therefore, theEnglish cathedral, though no longer dedicated to the kind of servicesfor which it was intended by its builders, and much at variance in manyof its characters with the temper of the people by whom it is nowsurrounded, retains yet so much of its religious influence that noprominent feature of its architecture can be said to exist altogether invain, we have in St.
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