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Ruskin draws, directly, or indirectly on the basis of citations in Selvatico and Lindsay, on two works by Cicognara. One is referred to in Stones of Venice: Cicognara & Diedo (1838-40). The second edition of 1838 -40 has notes and additions by F. Zanotto. There are also references in the notebooks to Cicognara (1813).
Le Fabbriche vol. 1, page 61, anticipates Ruskin on the stylistic diversity of the Ducal Palace referring to it as ‘miscuglio di tutti gli stili e del gusto egizio, greco, romano, e arabo’.
However for Ruskin’s views on the accuracy of Cicognara see Works, 9.4, and the passage on Cicognara, Storia della Scultura, and Lindsay at Notebook M2 p.133. A reason for Ruskin’s antipathy to Cicognara is perhaps to be seen at Works, 9.50 where Ruskin quotes Cicognara’s view that the Vendramin tomb is the culminating point of Venetian sculpture.
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