Compare Notebook M p.37 on the vertical, untapered shafts of SS. Giovanni e Paolo with the comment on the Frari at Notebook M p.46 and the emendation there from ‘interposed’ to ‘untapered’. See also Notebook M2 p.15back for Ruskin’s account of the principles underlying his judgment. See Works, 9.119 for untapered shafts as ‘in a certain degree barbaric’.
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