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VIII. THE SHAFT.
CONSTRUCTION.
Fig. xvm.
It was asserted that the oblique belonged to the north, the
even to the south: we have here the northern Lombardic
nation naturalised in Italy, and, behold, the oblique and even quatrefoil linked together; not
confused, but actually linked by a bar of stone, as
seen in Plate XVIL, under the capitals.
4. Next to these, observe the two groups of
five shafts each, 5 and 6, Plate II., one oblique,
the other even. Both are from upper stories;
the oblique one from the triforium of Salisbury;
the even one from the upper range of shafts in
the facade of St. Mark's at Venice.*
§ xxx. Around these central types are grouped,
in Plate IL, four simple examples of the satel-
litic cluster, all of the Northern Gothic : 4, from
the Cathedral of Amiens; 7, from that of. Lyons
1 —J (nave pier); 8, the same from Salisbury; 10,
from the porch of Notre Dame, Dijon, having satellites of
three magnitudes: 9 is one of the piers between the doors of
the same' church, with shafts of four magnitudes, and is an
instance of the confusion of mind of the Northern architects
between piers proper and jamb mouldings (noticed farther in
the next chapter, § xxxi.): for this fig. 9, which is an angle
at the meeting of two jambs, is treated like a rich independent
shaft, and the figure below, 12, which is half of a true-shaft,
is treated like a meeting of jambs.
All these four examples belonging to the oblique or Northern system, the curious trefoil plan, 3, lies between the two, as
the double quatrefoil next it unites the two. The trefoil is
from the Frari, Venice, and has a richly worked capital in the
Byzantine manner,—an imitation^ I think, of the Byzantine
work by the Gothic builders: 1 is to be compared with it,
being one of the earliest conditions of the cross shaft, from the
atrium of St. Ambrogio at Milan. 13 is the nave pier of St.
Michele at Pavia, showing the same condition more fully de-
' The effect of this last is given in Plate VI. of the folio series.
| 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 | 00000127 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 102 VIII. THE SHAFT. CONSTRUCTION. Fig. xvm. It was asserted that the oblique belonged to the north, the even to the south: we have here the northern Lombardic nation naturalised in Italy, and, behold, the oblique and even quatrefoil linked together; not confused, but actually linked by a bar of stone, as seen in Plate XVIL, under the capitals. 4. Next to these, observe the two groups of five shafts each, 5 and 6, Plate II., one oblique, the other even. Both are from upper stories; the oblique one from the triforium of Salisbury; the even one from the upper range of shafts in the facade of St. Mark's at Venice.* § xxx. Around these central types are grouped, in Plate IL, four simple examples of the satel- litic cluster, all of the Northern Gothic : 4, from the Cathedral of Amiens; 7, from that of. Lyons 1 —J (nave pier); 8, the same from Salisbury; 10, from the porch of Notre Dame, Dijon, having satellites of three magnitudes: 9 is one of the piers between the doors of the same' church, with shafts of four magnitudes, and is an instance of the confusion of mind of the Northern architects between piers proper and jamb mouldings (noticed farther in the next chapter, § xxxi.): for this fig. 9, which is an angle at the meeting of two jambs, is treated like a rich independent shaft, and the figure below, 12, which is half of a true-shaft, is treated like a meeting of jambs. All these four examples belonging to the oblique or Northern system, the curious trefoil plan, 3, lies between the two, as the double quatrefoil next it unites the two. The trefoil is from the Frari, Venice, and has a richly worked capital in the Byzantine manner,—an imitation^ I think, of the Byzantine work by the Gothic builders: 1 is to be compared with it, being one of the earliest conditions of the cross shaft, from the atrium of St. Ambrogio at Milan. 13 is the nave pier of St. Michele at Pavia, showing the same condition more fully de- ' The effect of this last is given in Plate VI. of the folio series. |
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