The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories, Volumen2Cosimo, Inc., 2013 M01 1 - 452 páginas "More than simply a survey of an ancient city's most significant buildings, The Stones of Venice first published in three volumes between 1851 and 1853 is an expression of a philosophy of art, nature, and morality that goes beyond art history, and has inspired such thinkers as Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Mahatma Gandhi. Volume II, examining the Byzantine era and the architectural developments of Venice s Gothic period, includes the oft-anthologized chapter The Nature of Gothic, one of the author s most important discussions of his key theme, the relation of the art of Venice to her moral temper. For Ruskin, the Gothic style embodied the same moral truths sought by great art. Informative, aesthetic, and spiritual, this architectural exploration will be appreciated by students and scholars alike. The preeminent art critic of his time, British writer JOHN RUSKIN (1819 1900) had a profound influence upon European painting, architecture, and aesthetics of the 19th and 20th centuries. His immense body of literary works include Modern Painters, Volume I IV (1843 1856); The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849); Unto This Last (1862); Munera Pulveris (1862 3); The Crown of Wild Olive (1866); Time and Tide (1867); and Fors Clavigera (1871-84)." |
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... original design . The pulpit is not the only place where this rough procedure has been permitted ; at the lateral door of the church are two crosses , cut out of slabs of marble , formerly covered with rich sculpture over their whole ...
... original design . The pulpit is not the only place where this rough procedure has been permitted ; at the lateral door of the church are two crosses , cut out of slabs of marble , formerly covered with rich sculpture over their whole ...
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... , nothing but the apse having been spared ; the original plan is only discoverable by careful examination , and even then but partially . The whole impression and effect of the building are irretrievably lost , III . MURANO . 31.
... , nothing but the apse having been spared ; the original plan is only discoverable by careful examination , and even then but partially . The whole impression and effect of the building are irretrievably lost , III . MURANO . 31.
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... original brickwork of the clerestory , and in all probability of the side walls also , though those have been refaced ; and finally by the series of nave shafts , which are still perfect . The doors A and B may or may not be in their ...
... original brickwork of the clerestory , and in all probability of the side walls also , though those have been refaced ; and finally by the series of nave shafts , which are still perfect . The doors A and B may or may not be in their ...
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... original state , as is sufficiently proved by the curious niceties in the arrangement of its colours , which are assuredly to be attributed to the care of the first builder . A word or two , in the first place , respecting the means of ...
... original state , as is sufficiently proved by the curious niceties in the arrangement of its colours , which are assuredly to be attributed to the care of the first builder . A word or two , in the first place , respecting the means of ...
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... small fillet which encompasses the inner marble . It is much narrower at the bottom than at the sides , so as to recover the original breadth in the lower border . variegated marbles , and used a bolder pattern with the III . MURANO . 43.
... small fillet which encompasses the inner marble . It is much narrower at the bottom than at the sides , so as to recover the original breadth in the lower border . variegated marbles , and used a bolder pattern with the III . MURANO . 43.
Contenido
DATE OF THE DUOMO OF TORCELLO | 379 |
PROPER SENSE OF THE WORD IDOLATRY | 386 |
ADDITIONAL NOTES FROM THE TRAVELLERS EDITION OF STONES | 394 |
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Página 388 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Página 116 - I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Página 114 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Página 65 - ... to the height of the counter and glazed above, but in those of the poorer tradesmen left open to the ground, and the wares laid on benches and tables in the open air, the light in all cases entering at the front only, and fading away in a few feet from the threshold into a gloom which the eye from without cannot penetrate, but which is generally broken by a ray or two from a feeble lamp at the back of the shop, suspended before a print of the Virgin.
Página 144 - The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers : they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about ; they have made thy beauty perfect.
Página 66 - Soldi 28-32,' the Madonna is in great glory, enthroned above ten or a dozen large red casks of three-year-old vintage, and flanked by goodly ranks of bottles of Maraschino, and two crimson lamps; and for the evening, when the gondoliers will come to drink out, under her auspices, the money they have gained during the day, she will have a whole chandelier. A yard or two farther, we pass the hostelry of the Black Eagle, and glancing as we pass through the square door of marble, deeply moulded, in the...
Página 142 - And say, Thus saith the LORD GOD ; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar...
Página 388 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.