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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... , 1840 ) , chap . ix . , P. 95. In other respects Mr. Hope has done justice to this building , and to the style of the early Christian churches in general . foiled , and the stalks cut clear so that they II . TORCELLO . 15.
... , 1840 ) , chap . ix . , P. 95. In other respects Mr. Hope has done justice to this building , and to the style of the early Christian churches in general . foiled , and the stalks cut clear so that they II . TORCELLO . 15.
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... respect that its design possesses , it seems to me , an interest to the religious spectator greater than he will take in any other portion of the building . It is supported , as I said , on a group of four slender shafts ; itself of II ...
... respect that its design possesses , it seems to me , an interest to the religious spectator greater than he will take in any other portion of the building . It is supported , as I said , on a group of four slender shafts ; itself of II ...
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... respects , like that of an outwearied and aged human frame ; the cause of its decrepitude is indeed at the heart , but the outward appear- ances of it are first at the extremities . In the centre of the city there are still places where ...
... respects , like that of an outwearied and aged human frame ; the cause of its decrepitude is indeed at the heart , but the outward appear- ances of it are first at the extremities . In the centre of the city there are still places where ...
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... respecting the cathedral of Murano : namely , that the emperor Otho the Great , being overtaken by a storm on the Adriatic , vowed , if he were preserved , to build and dedicate a church to the Virgin , in whatever place might be most ...
... respecting the cathedral of Murano : namely , that the emperor Otho the Great , being overtaken by a storm on the Adriatic , vowed , if he were preserved , to build and dedicate a church to the Virgin , in whatever place might be most ...
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... respecting the epochs or authors of the destructive modern restorations : the wreck of the old fabric , breaking out beneath them here and there , is generally dis- tinguishable from them at a glance ; and it is enough for the reader to ...
... respecting the epochs or authors of the destructive modern restorations : the wreck of the old fabric , breaking out beneath them here and there , is generally dis- tinguishable from them at a glance ; and it is enough for the reader to ...
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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angle apse architect archivolt arrangement beautiful beneath brick builders building built Byzantine Byzantine architecture canal capitals Casa cathedral central centre century character Christ Christian church colour cornice cusp decoration Doge Ducal Palace early endeavour expression exquisite façade feeling feet figure foliation Fondaco fragments gable Giotto given Gothic architecture Gothic palaces grace Grand Canal Greek Guariento hand human inches incrusted Inscribed inscription kind leafage leaves light look lower Madonna marble Mark's Mark's Place merely mind modern mosaic mouldings Murano nature never noble Northern observe ornament painter painting parapet Paul Veronese peculiar perfect Piazzetta piece pilaster pillars Plate pointed arch reader Renaissance represented rest rich Romanesque roof round sculpture seen shafts side spandrils Spenser spirit stone style thought Titian Torcello traceries upper arcade Venetian Venice Verona vine virtues walls whole workman
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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.