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It is difficult to attach any meaning to ‘received’ in this context, nor is it a very plausible transcription of Ruskin’s handwriting. A possible, though, by no means certain reading might be ‘accented’. The fillets are drawing attention to the structure of the foliage. The word ‘accented’ is used in analogous, though not identical, ways at Works, 20.222 [n/a] and Works, 14.383 [n/a]. In the latter he is ‘urging frankness in the confession of special means by which any artistic result has been achieved ... Thus the threads in tapestry, the tesserae in mosaic, the joints of the stone in masonry, and the movements of the pencil in painting, are shown without hesitation by the greatest masters of those arts, and often enforced and accented by the most ingenious.’
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]