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It is difficult to see what Ruskin might mean by ‘near’ in this comment apparently about a miniature arcade in the Campo San Simeone Profeta. It is not even entirely sure which building Ruskin had in mind. Compare Notebook M p.50. There San Nicolo de’ Tolentini is clearly what Ruskin wrote. It seems unlikely, however, that this is the church he had in mind. The architect was Scamozzi and the church dates from the end of the 16th Century. In the Venetian Index Ruskin called San Nicolo de’ Tolentini, not without justification, ‘one of the basest and coldest works of the late renaissance’ Works, 11.434. Perhaps Ruskin at Notebook M p.50, as at Notebook M2 p.31, was thinking of the much earlier church of San Nicolo dei Mendicoli.
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