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VIII. THE DUCAL PALACE. 295
and more magnificent one might be built. The government
was now thoroughly established, and it was probably felt that
there was some meanness in the retired position, as well as
insufficiencv in the size, of the Council Chamber on the Rio.
The first definite account which I find of their proceedings,
under these circumstances, is in the Caroldo Chronicle: *
" 1340. On the 28th of December, in the preceding year,
Master Marco Erizzo, Nicolo Soranzo, and Thomas Gradenigo,
were chosen to examine where a new saloon might be built in
order to assemble therein the Greater Council On the
3rd of June, 1341, the Great Council elected two procurators
of the work of this saloon, with a salary of eighty ducats a
year."
It appears from the entry still preserved in the Archivio,
and quoted by Cadorin, that it was on the 28th of December,
1340, that the commissioners appointed to decide on this important matter gave in their report to the Grand Council, and
that the decree passed thereupon' for the commencement of a
new Council Chamber on the Grand Canal.f
The room then begun is the one now in existence, and its
building involved the building of all that is best and most
beautiful in the present Ducal Palace, the rich arcades of the
lower stories being all prepared for sustaining this Sala del
Gran Consiglio.
§ xix. In saying that it is the same now in existence, I do
not mean that it has undergone no alterations; as we shall
see hereafter, it has been refitted again and again, and some
portions of its walls rebuilt; but in the place and form in
which it first stood, it still stands; and by a glance at the
position which its windows occupy, as shown in fig. XXXVII.
above, the reader will see at once that whatever can be known
respecting the design of the Sea Facade, must be gleaned out
* Cod. Ven., No. cxli. p. 365.
f Sansovino is more explicit than usual in his reference to this decree:
" For it having appeared that the place (the first Council Chamber) was not
capacious enough, the saloon on the Grand Canal was ordered.'' "Per cio
parendo che il luogo non fosse capace, fu ordinatala Sala sul Canal Grande."
—P. 324.
| 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 | 00000339 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | VIII. THE DUCAL PALACE. 295 and more magnificent one might be built. The government was now thoroughly established, and it was probably felt that there was some meanness in the retired position, as well as insufficiencv in the size, of the Council Chamber on the Rio. The first definite account which I find of their proceedings, under these circumstances, is in the Caroldo Chronicle: * " 1340. On the 28th of December, in the preceding year, Master Marco Erizzo, Nicolo Soranzo, and Thomas Gradenigo, were chosen to examine where a new saloon might be built in order to assemble therein the Greater Council On the 3rd of June, 1341, the Great Council elected two procurators of the work of this saloon, with a salary of eighty ducats a year." It appears from the entry still preserved in the Archivio, and quoted by Cadorin, that it was on the 28th of December, 1340, that the commissioners appointed to decide on this important matter gave in their report to the Grand Council, and that the decree passed thereupon' for the commencement of a new Council Chamber on the Grand Canal.f The room then begun is the one now in existence, and its building involved the building of all that is best and most beautiful in the present Ducal Palace, the rich arcades of the lower stories being all prepared for sustaining this Sala del Gran Consiglio. § xix. In saying that it is the same now in existence, I do not mean that it has undergone no alterations; as we shall see hereafter, it has been refitted again and again, and some portions of its walls rebuilt; but in the place and form in which it first stood, it still stands; and by a glance at the position which its windows occupy, as shown in fig. XXXVII. above, the reader will see at once that whatever can be known respecting the design of the Sea Facade, must be gleaned out * Cod. Ven., No. cxli. p. 365. f Sansovino is more explicit than usual in his reference to this decree: " For it having appeared that the place (the first Council Chamber) was not capacious enough, the saloon on the Grand Canal was ordered.'' "Per cio parendo che il luogo non fosse capace, fu ordinatala Sala sul Canal Grande." —P. 324. |
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