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CHAPTER Y.
THE WALL VEIL.
§ i. The summer of the year 1849 was spent by the writer
in researches little bearing upon his present subject, and
connected chiefly with proposed illustrations of the mountain
forms in the works of J. M. W. Turner. But there are sometimes more valuable lessons to be learned in the school of
nature than in that of Vitruvius, and a fragment of building
among the Alps is singularly illustrative of the chief feature
which I have at present to develope as necessary to the
perfection of the wall veil.
It is a fragment of some size; a group of broken walls, one
of them overhanging; crowned with a cornice, nodding some
hundred and fifty feet over its massy flank, three thousand
above its glacier base, and fourteen thousand above the sea,
—a wall truly of some majesty, at once the most precipitous
and the strongest mass in the whole chain of the Alps, the
Mont Cervin.
§11. It has been falsely represented as a peak or tower.
It is a vast ridged promontory, connected at its western root
with the Dent d'Erin, and lifting itself like a rearing horse
with its face to the east. All the way along the flank of it,
for half a day's journey on the Zmutt glacier, the grim black
terraces of its foundations range almost without a break; and
the clouds, when their day's work is done, and they are
weary, lay themselves down on those foundation steps, and
rest till dawn, each with his leagues of grey mantle stretched
along the grisly ledge, and the cornice of the mighty wall
gleaming in the moonlight, three thousand feet above.
| Title | The stones of Venice - 1 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000081 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | CHAPTER Y. THE WALL VEIL. § i. The summer of the year 1849 was spent by the writer in researches little bearing upon his present subject, and connected chiefly with proposed illustrations of the mountain forms in the works of J. M. W. Turner. But there are sometimes more valuable lessons to be learned in the school of nature than in that of Vitruvius, and a fragment of building among the Alps is singularly illustrative of the chief feature which I have at present to develope as necessary to the perfection of the wall veil. It is a fragment of some size; a group of broken walls, one of them overhanging; crowned with a cornice, nodding some hundred and fifty feet over its massy flank, three thousand above its glacier base, and fourteen thousand above the sea, —a wall truly of some majesty, at once the most precipitous and the strongest mass in the whole chain of the Alps, the Mont Cervin. §11. It has been falsely represented as a peak or tower. It is a vast ridged promontory, connected at its western root with the Dent d'Erin, and lifting itself like a rearing horse with its face to the east. All the way along the flank of it, for half a day's journey on the Zmutt glacier, the grim black terraces of its foundations range almost without a break; and the clouds, when their day's work is done, and they are weary, lay themselves down on those foundation steps, and rest till dawn, each with his leagues of grey mantle stretched along the grisly ledge, and the cornice of the mighty wall gleaming in the moonlight, three thousand feet above. |
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