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Excerpt from The Stones of Venice the Fall the Poetry of Architecture Poems Giotto and His Works in Padua, Vol. 3 Prosperity, its streets were inwrought with rich sculpture, and even (though in this, as before noticed, Venice always stood supreme) glowing with color and with gold. Now, therefore, let the reader, - forming for himself as vivid and real a con ception as he is able, either of a group of Venetian palaces in the fourteenth century, or, if he likes better, of one of'the more fantastic but-even richer street scenes of Rouen, Ant werp, Cologne, or Nuremberg, and keeping this gorgeous image before him, - go out into any thoroughfare; representa tive, in a general and characteristic way, of' the feeling for domestic architecture in modern times let him, for instance, if in London, walk once up and down Harley Street, or Baker Street, or Gower Street and then, looking upon this picture and on this, set himself to consider (for this is to be the sub ject of our following and final inquiry) what have been the causes which have' induced'so vast a change in' the European mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.