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On the Scuola Grande di San Rocco see Bit Book p.35bL on panelled roses; Gothic Book p.14 on classical ornament; Notebook M2 p.79 and Notebook M2 pp.110f. There is a version of the passage at Notebook M2 p.79 published at Works, 9.471 - and compare Works, 9.344. For the style of decoration see Works, 8.175f and Works, 9.70; Works, 9.392 on the merit of putting bad decoration where we should least expect to find it; Works, 11.403 for a brief summary of Ruskin’s views of its architecture (and a lengthy account of its paintings) in the Venetian Index. There are useful summaries of its complex building history between 1516 and 1549 and its “uniquely Venetian” forms in Howard (2002) pp 156ff and in Tafuri, 1995, Chapter 4.
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