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VII. GOTHIC PALACES.
245
Fig. XXV.
On the old Byzantine interwoven traceries; that is to say, the
slab of stone was pierced here and there with holes, and then
an interwoven pattern traced on the surface round them. The
difference in system will be understood in a moment by comparing the ^uppermost example in
the figure at the side, which is a
Northern parapet from the Cathedral of Abbeville, with the lowest,
from a secret chamber in the Casa
Foscari. It will be seen that the
Venetian one is far more simple:
and severe, yet singularly piquant,
the black penetrations telling sharply
on the plain broad surface. Far inferior in beauty, it ha,s yet one point
of superiority to that of Abbeville,
that it proclaims itself more definitely to be stone. The other has
rather the look of lace.
The intermediate figure is a panel of the main balcony of
the Ducal Palace, and is introduced here as being an exactly
transitional condition between the Northern and Venetian
types. It was built when the German Gothic workmen were
exercising considerable influence over those in Venice, and
there was some chance of the Northern parapet introducing
itself. It actually did so, as above shown, in the Casa Contarini Fasan, but was for the most part stoutly resisted and kept
at bay by the Byzantine form, the lowest in the last figure,
until that form itself was displaced by the common, vulgar,
Renaissance baluster; a grievous loss, for the severe pierced
type was capable of a variety as endless as the f antasticism of
our own Anglo-Saxon manuscript ornamentation.
§ xix. (3.) The Baluster Parapet. Long before the idea of
tracery had suggested itself to the minds either of Venetian
or any other architects, it had, of course, been necessary to
provide protection for galleries, edges of roofs, &e.; and the
most natural form in which such protection could be obtained
| 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 | 00000275 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | VII. GOTHIC PALACES. 245 Fig. XXV. On the old Byzantine interwoven traceries; that is to say, the slab of stone was pierced here and there with holes, and then an interwoven pattern traced on the surface round them. The difference in system will be understood in a moment by comparing the ^uppermost example in the figure at the side, which is a Northern parapet from the Cathedral of Abbeville, with the lowest, from a secret chamber in the Casa Foscari. It will be seen that the Venetian one is far more simple: and severe, yet singularly piquant, the black penetrations telling sharply on the plain broad surface. Far inferior in beauty, it ha,s yet one point of superiority to that of Abbeville, that it proclaims itself more definitely to be stone. The other has rather the look of lace. The intermediate figure is a panel of the main balcony of the Ducal Palace, and is introduced here as being an exactly transitional condition between the Northern and Venetian types. It was built when the German Gothic workmen were exercising considerable influence over those in Venice, and there was some chance of the Northern parapet introducing itself. It actually did so, as above shown, in the Casa Contarini Fasan, but was for the most part stoutly resisted and kept at bay by the Byzantine form, the lowest in the last figure, until that form itself was displaced by the common, vulgar, Renaissance baluster; a grievous loss, for the severe pierced type was capable of a variety as endless as the f antasticism of our own Anglo-Saxon manuscript ornamentation. § xix. (3.) The Baluster Parapet. Long before the idea of tracery had suggested itself to the minds either of Venetian or any other architects, it had, of course, been necessary to provide protection for galleries, edges of roofs, &e.; and the most natural form in which such protection could be obtained |
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