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VIII. THE DUCAL PALACE. 329 Memmi in the Spanish chapel at Florence, of Ambrogio di Lorenzo in the Palazzo Publico of Pisa, of Orcagna in Or San Michele at Florence, of Giotto at Padua and Assisi, in mosaic on the central cupola of St. Mark's, and in sculpture on the pillars of the Ducal Palace. The first two series are carefully described by Lord Lindsay; both are too complicated for comparison with the more simple series of the Ducal Palace; the other four of course agree in giving first the cardinal and evangelical virtues; their variations in the statement of the rest will be best understood by putting them in a parallel arrangement. St. Mark's. Constancy. Modesty. Chastity. Patience. Mercy. Abstinence. Piety* Benignity. Humility. Orcagna. Perseverance. Virginity Patience. Devotion. Humility. Obedience. Docility. Caution. Giotto. Ducal Palace. Constancy. Modesty. Chastity. Chastity. Patience. Abstinence ? Humility. Humility. Obedience. Obedience. Poverty. Honesty. Liberality. Alacrity. § Lxrv. It is curious, that in none of these lists do we find either Honesty or Industry ranked as a virtue, except in the Venetian one, where the latter is implied in Alacritas, and opposed not only by "Accidia" or sloth, but by a whole series of eight sculptures on another capital, illustrative, as I believe, of the temptations to idleness; while various other capitals, as we shall see presently, are devoted to the representation of the * Inscribed, I believe, Pietas, meaning general reverence and godly fear.
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 | 00000375 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | VIII. THE DUCAL PALACE. 329 Memmi in the Spanish chapel at Florence, of Ambrogio di Lorenzo in the Palazzo Publico of Pisa, of Orcagna in Or San Michele at Florence, of Giotto at Padua and Assisi, in mosaic on the central cupola of St. Mark's, and in sculpture on the pillars of the Ducal Palace. The first two series are carefully described by Lord Lindsay; both are too complicated for comparison with the more simple series of the Ducal Palace; the other four of course agree in giving first the cardinal and evangelical virtues; their variations in the statement of the rest will be best understood by putting them in a parallel arrangement. St. Mark's. Constancy. Modesty. Chastity. Patience. Mercy. Abstinence. Piety* Benignity. Humility. Orcagna. Perseverance. Virginity Patience. Devotion. Humility. Obedience. Docility. Caution. Giotto. Ducal Palace. Constancy. Modesty. Chastity. Chastity. Patience. Abstinence ? Humility. Humility. Obedience. Obedience. Poverty. Honesty. Liberality. Alacrity. § Lxrv. It is curious, that in none of these lists do we find either Honesty or Industry ranked as a virtue, except in the Venetian one, where the latter is implied in Alacritas, and opposed not only by "Accidia" or sloth, but by a whole series of eight sculptures on another capital, illustrative, as I believe, of the temptations to idleness; while various other capitals, as we shall see presently, are devoted to the representation of the * Inscribed, I believe, Pietas, meaning general reverence and godly fear. |
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