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330 XXVII. THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL, DECORATION.
be compared with the doubly spurred base, also from St Mark's,
in Plate XL In other respects it is a good example of the
union of breadth of mass with subtlety of curvature, which
characterises nearly all the spurred capitals of the convex
school Its plan is given in Fig. LXVIII.: the inner shaded
circle is the head of the shaft; the white cross, the bottom
of the capital, which expands itself into the external shaded
portions at the top. Each spur, thus formed, is cut like a
ship's bow, with the Doric profile; the surfaces so obtained
are then charged with arborescent ornament.
§ xlv. I shall not here farther exemplify the conditions of
the treatment of the spur, because I am afraid of confusing the
reader's mind, and diminishing the distinctness of his conception of the differences between the two great orders, which it
has been my principal object to develope throughout this
chapter. If all my readers lived in London, I could at once
fix this difference in their minds by a simple, yet somewhat
curious illustration. In many parts of the west end of London, as, for instance, at the corners of Belgrave Square, and
the north side of Grosvenor Square, the Corinthian capitals of
newly-built houses are put into cages of wire. The wire cage
is the exact form of the typical capital of the convex school;
the Corinthian capital, within, is a finished and highly decorated example of the concave. The space between the cage
and capital is the limit of ornamentation.
§ xlvi. Those of my readers, however, to whom this illustration is inaccessible, must be content with the two profiles,
13 and 14, on Plate XV. If they will glance along the line
of sections from 1 to 6, they will see that the profile 13 is their
final development, with a superadded cornice for its abacus. It
is taken from a capital in a very important ruin of a palace,
near the Rialto of Venice, and hereafter to be described ; the
projection, outside of its principal curve, is the profile of its
superadded leaf ornamentation ; it may be taken as one of the
simplest, yet a perfect type of the concave group.
§ xlvii. The profile 14 is that of the capital of the main
shaft of the northern portico of St. Mark's, the most finished
| 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 | 00000385 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 330 XXVII. THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL, DECORATION. be compared with the doubly spurred base, also from St Mark's, in Plate XL In other respects it is a good example of the union of breadth of mass with subtlety of curvature, which characterises nearly all the spurred capitals of the convex school Its plan is given in Fig. LXVIII.: the inner shaded circle is the head of the shaft; the white cross, the bottom of the capital, which expands itself into the external shaded portions at the top. Each spur, thus formed, is cut like a ship's bow, with the Doric profile; the surfaces so obtained are then charged with arborescent ornament. § xlv. I shall not here farther exemplify the conditions of the treatment of the spur, because I am afraid of confusing the reader's mind, and diminishing the distinctness of his conception of the differences between the two great orders, which it has been my principal object to develope throughout this chapter. If all my readers lived in London, I could at once fix this difference in their minds by a simple, yet somewhat curious illustration. In many parts of the west end of London, as, for instance, at the corners of Belgrave Square, and the north side of Grosvenor Square, the Corinthian capitals of newly-built houses are put into cages of wire. The wire cage is the exact form of the typical capital of the convex school; the Corinthian capital, within, is a finished and highly decorated example of the concave. The space between the cage and capital is the limit of ornamentation. § xlvi. Those of my readers, however, to whom this illustration is inaccessible, must be content with the two profiles, 13 and 14, on Plate XV. If they will glance along the line of sections from 1 to 6, they will see that the profile 13 is their final development, with a superadded cornice for its abacus. It is taken from a capital in a very important ruin of a palace, near the Rialto of Venice, and hereafter to be described ; the projection, outside of its principal curve, is the profile of its superadded leaf ornamentation ; it may be taken as one of the simplest, yet a perfect type of the concave group. § xlvii. The profile 14 is that of the capital of the main shaft of the northern portico of St. Mark's, the most finished |
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