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Compare Works, 9.469, where the Alhambra is no more characteristic of Arab work than Milan Cathedral is of Gothic because it is a late building in ‘its last decline’. Ruskin's language suggests that he has in mind the notion of a prototype as being an ideal building which was earlier in time, as opposed to an ideal form which is realised to a greater or lesser extent in particular buildings. The image of a stream is found in the notebooks and in the published text of Stones of Venice. See for example Notebook M p.47, Notebook M p.48, and Notebook M p.120, with the emphasis on the pure source as opposed to the mudflats of the Venetian lagoon at Notebook M p.86 and the notion there of a tidal (and therefore presumably reversible) stream.
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