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V. BYZANTINE PALACES. 131
Loredan, Terraced House, and upper story of the Madonnetta
House, in forms so exactly similar that the two figures 1 and
2 in Plate VIII. may sufficiently represent them all. They
consist merely of portions cut out of the plinths or stringcourses which run along all the faces of these palaces, by four
truncations in the form of arrowy leaves (fig. 1, Fondaco de' Tur-
chi), and the whole rounded a little at the bottom so as to fit the
shaft. When they occur between two arches they assume the
form of the group fig. 2 (Terraced House). Fig. 3 is from
the central arches of the Casa Farsetti, and is only given because either it is a later restoration or a form absolutely unique
in the Byzantine period.
§ xvn. The concave group, however, was not naturally
pleasing to the Byzantine mind. Its own favorite capital was
of the bold convex or cushion shape, so conspicuous in all the
buildings of the period that I have devoted Plate VII., opposite, entirely to its illustration. The form in which it is first
used is practically obtained from a square block laid on the
head of the shaft (fig. 1, Plate VII.), by first cutting off the
lower corners, as in fig. 2, and then rounding the edges, as in
fig. 3; this gives us the bell stone: on this is laid a simple
abacus, as seen in fig. 4, which is the actual form used in the
upper arcade of Murano, and the framework of the capital is
complete. Fig. 5 shows the general manner and effect of its
decoration on the same scale; the other figures, 6 and 7, both
from the apse of Murano, 8, from the Terraced House, and 9,
from the Baptistery of St. Mark's, show the method of chiselling the surfaces in capitals of average richness, such as occur
everywhere, for there is no limit to the fantasy and beauty of
the more elaborate examples.
§ xviii. In consequence of the peculiar affection entertained
for these massy forms by the Byzantines, they were apt, when
they used any condition of capital founded on the Corinthian,
to modify the concave profile by making it bulge out at the
bottom. Fig. 1, a, Plate X., is the profile of a capital of the
pure concave family; and observe, it needs a fillet or cord
round the neck of the capital to show where it separates from
| Title | The stones of Venice - 2 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000155 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | V. BYZANTINE PALACES. 131 Loredan, Terraced House, and upper story of the Madonnetta House, in forms so exactly similar that the two figures 1 and 2 in Plate VIII. may sufficiently represent them all. They consist merely of portions cut out of the plinths or stringcourses which run along all the faces of these palaces, by four truncations in the form of arrowy leaves (fig. 1, Fondaco de' Tur- chi), and the whole rounded a little at the bottom so as to fit the shaft. When they occur between two arches they assume the form of the group fig. 2 (Terraced House). Fig. 3 is from the central arches of the Casa Farsetti, and is only given because either it is a later restoration or a form absolutely unique in the Byzantine period. § xvn. The concave group, however, was not naturally pleasing to the Byzantine mind. Its own favorite capital was of the bold convex or cushion shape, so conspicuous in all the buildings of the period that I have devoted Plate VII., opposite, entirely to its illustration. The form in which it is first used is practically obtained from a square block laid on the head of the shaft (fig. 1, Plate VII.), by first cutting off the lower corners, as in fig. 2, and then rounding the edges, as in fig. 3; this gives us the bell stone: on this is laid a simple abacus, as seen in fig. 4, which is the actual form used in the upper arcade of Murano, and the framework of the capital is complete. Fig. 5 shows the general manner and effect of its decoration on the same scale; the other figures, 6 and 7, both from the apse of Murano, 8, from the Terraced House, and 9, from the Baptistery of St. Mark's, show the method of chiselling the surfaces in capitals of average richness, such as occur everywhere, for there is no limit to the fantasy and beauty of the more elaborate examples. § xviii. In consequence of the peculiar affection entertained for these massy forms by the Byzantines, they were apt, when they used any condition of capital founded on the Corinthian, to modify the concave profile by making it bulge out at the bottom. Fig. 1, a, Plate X., is the profile of a capital of the pure concave family; and observe, it needs a fillet or cord round the neck of the capital to show where it separates from |
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