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DECORATION. XXVIII. THE ARCHIVOLT AND APERTURE. 339
easy a conquest, Unless by the help of certain forms of the
grouped shaft. The chamfer was quite enough to decorate
the archivolts, if there were no more than two; but if, as
above noticed in § in., the archivolt was very deep, and composed of a successio'n of such steps, the multitude of chamfer-
ings were felt to be weak and insipid, and instead of dealing
with the outside edges of the archivolts, the group was softened by introducing solid shafts in their dark inner angles.
This, the manliest and best condition of the early northern
jamb and archivolt, is represented in section at fig. 12 of Plate
II.; and its simplest aspect in Plate V., from the Broletto of
Como,—an interesting example, because there the voussoirs
being in the midst of their above-described southern contest
with the architrave, were better prepared for the flank attack
upon them by the shaft and chamfer, and make a noble resistance, with the help of color, in which even the shaft itself
gets slightly worsted, and cut across in several places, like
General Zach's column at Marengo.
§ xiv. The shaft, however, rapidly rallies, and brings up its
own peculiar decorations to its aid; and the intermediate archivolts receive running or panelled ornaments, also, until we reach
the exquisitely rich conditions of our own Norman archivolts,
and of the parallel Lombardic designs, such as the entrance of
the Duomo, and of San Fermo, at Verona. This change,
however, occupies little time, and takes place principally in
doorways, owing to the greater thickness of wall, and depth of
archivolt; so that we find the rich shafted succession of ornament, in the doorway and window aperture, associated with the
earliest and rudest double archivolt, in the nave arches, at St.
Michele of Pavia. The nave arches, therefore, are most
usually treated by the chamfer, and the voussoirs are there
defeated much sooner than by the shafted arrangements, which
they resist, as we saw, in the south by color ; and even in the
north, though forced out of their own shape, they take that" of
birds' or monsters' heads, which for some time peck and pinch
the rolls of the arehisrolt to their hearts' content; while the
Norman zigzag ornament allies itself with them, each zigzag
| 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 | 00000397 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | DECORATION. XXVIII. THE ARCHIVOLT AND APERTURE. 339 easy a conquest, Unless by the help of certain forms of the grouped shaft. The chamfer was quite enough to decorate the archivolts, if there were no more than two; but if, as above noticed in § in., the archivolt was very deep, and composed of a successio'n of such steps, the multitude of chamfer- ings were felt to be weak and insipid, and instead of dealing with the outside edges of the archivolts, the group was softened by introducing solid shafts in their dark inner angles. This, the manliest and best condition of the early northern jamb and archivolt, is represented in section at fig. 12 of Plate II.; and its simplest aspect in Plate V., from the Broletto of Como,—an interesting example, because there the voussoirs being in the midst of their above-described southern contest with the architrave, were better prepared for the flank attack upon them by the shaft and chamfer, and make a noble resistance, with the help of color, in which even the shaft itself gets slightly worsted, and cut across in several places, like General Zach's column at Marengo. § xiv. The shaft, however, rapidly rallies, and brings up its own peculiar decorations to its aid; and the intermediate archivolts receive running or panelled ornaments, also, until we reach the exquisitely rich conditions of our own Norman archivolts, and of the parallel Lombardic designs, such as the entrance of the Duomo, and of San Fermo, at Verona. This change, however, occupies little time, and takes place principally in doorways, owing to the greater thickness of wall, and depth of archivolt; so that we find the rich shafted succession of ornament, in the doorway and window aperture, associated with the earliest and rudest double archivolt, in the nave arches, at St. Michele of Pavia. The nave arches, therefore, are most usually treated by the chamfer, and the voussoirs are there defeated much sooner than by the shafted arrangements, which they resist, as we saw, in the south by color ; and even in the north, though forced out of their own shape, they take that" of birds' or monsters' heads, which for some time peck and pinch the rolls of the arehisrolt to their hearts' content; while the Norman zigzag ornament allies itself with them, each zigzag |
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