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308 XXVII. THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL. DECORATION.
varieties of the great families which are represented by the
central lines a and c, including not only the Doric capital, but
all the small cornices formed by a slight increase of the curve
of c, which are of so frequent occurrence in Greek ornaments.
§ vin. d is the Christian Doric, which I said (Chap. L, § xx.)
was invented to replace the antique: it is the representative
of the great Byzantine and Norman families of convex cornice
and capital, and, next to the profile a, the most important of
the four, being the best profile for the convex capital, as a is
for the concave ; a being the best expression of an elastic line
inserted vertically in the shaft, and d of an elastic line inserted
horizontally and rising to meet vertical pressure.
If the reader will glance at the arrangements of boughs of
trees, he will find them commonly dividing into these two
families, a and d: they rise out of the trunk and nod from it
as a, or they spring with sudden curvature out from it, and
rise into sympathy with it, as at d; but they only accidentally
display tendencies to the lines b or c. Boughs which fall as
they spring from the tree also describe the curve d in the
plurality of instances, but reversed in arrangement; their junction with the stem being at the top of it, their sprays bending
out into rounder curvature.
§ ix. These then being the two primal groups, we have
next to note the combined group, formed by the concave and
convex lines joined in various proportions of curvature, so as
to form together the reversed or ogee curve, represented in
one of its most beautiful states by the glacier line a, on Plate
VII. I would rather have taken this line than any other to
have formed my third group of cornices by, but as it is too
large, and almost too delicate, we will take instead that of the
Matterhorn side, ef, Plate VII. For uniformity's sake I keep
the slope of the dotted line the same as in the primal forms;
and applying this Matterhorn curve in its four relative positions to that line, I have the types of the four cornices or capitals of the third family, e,f, g, h, on Plate XV.
These are, however, general types only thus far, that their
line is composed of one short and one long curve, and that
| 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 | 00000357 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 308 XXVII. THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL. DECORATION. varieties of the great families which are represented by the central lines a and c, including not only the Doric capital, but all the small cornices formed by a slight increase of the curve of c, which are of so frequent occurrence in Greek ornaments. § vin. d is the Christian Doric, which I said (Chap. L, § xx.) was invented to replace the antique: it is the representative of the great Byzantine and Norman families of convex cornice and capital, and, next to the profile a, the most important of the four, being the best profile for the convex capital, as a is for the concave ; a being the best expression of an elastic line inserted vertically in the shaft, and d of an elastic line inserted horizontally and rising to meet vertical pressure. If the reader will glance at the arrangements of boughs of trees, he will find them commonly dividing into these two families, a and d: they rise out of the trunk and nod from it as a, or they spring with sudden curvature out from it, and rise into sympathy with it, as at d; but they only accidentally display tendencies to the lines b or c. Boughs which fall as they spring from the tree also describe the curve d in the plurality of instances, but reversed in arrangement; their junction with the stem being at the top of it, their sprays bending out into rounder curvature. § ix. These then being the two primal groups, we have next to note the combined group, formed by the concave and convex lines joined in various proportions of curvature, so as to form together the reversed or ogee curve, represented in one of its most beautiful states by the glacier line a, on Plate VII. I would rather have taken this line than any other to have formed my third group of cornices by, but as it is too large, and almost too delicate, we will take instead that of the Matterhorn side, ef, Plate VII. For uniformity's sake I keep the slope of the dotted line the same as in the primal forms; and applying this Matterhorn curve in its four relative positions to that line, I have the types of the four cornices or capitals of the third family, e,f, g, h, on Plate XV. These are, however, general types only thus far, that their line is composed of one short and one long curve, and that |
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