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THE
STONES OF VENICE.
THIRD, OR RENAISSANCE, PERIOD.
CHAPTER I.
EARLY renaissance.
§ i. I trust that the reader has been enabled, by the preceding chapters, to form some conception of the magnificence
of the streets of Yenice during the course of the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries. Yet by all this magnificence she
was not supremely distinguished above the other cities of the
middle ages. Her early edifices have been preserved to our
times by the circuit of her waves; while continual recurrences
of ruin have defaced the glory of her sister cities. But such
fragments as are still left in their lonely squares, and in the
corners of their streets, so far from being inferior to the buildings of Yenice, are even more rich, more finished, more admirable in invention, more exuberant in beauty. And although, in the North of Europe, civilization was less advanced,
and the knowledge of the arts was more confined to the ecclesiastical orders, so that, for domestic architecture, the period of
perfection must be there placed much later than in Italy, and
considered as extending to the middle of the fifteenth century ; yet, as each city reached a certain point in civilization,
its streets became decorated with the same magnificence, varied,
| Title | The stones of Venice - 3 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000011 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE STONES OF VENICE. THIRD, OR RENAISSANCE, PERIOD. CHAPTER I. EARLY renaissance. § i. I trust that the reader has been enabled, by the preceding chapters, to form some conception of the magnificence of the streets of Yenice during the course of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Yet by all this magnificence she was not supremely distinguished above the other cities of the middle ages. Her early edifices have been preserved to our times by the circuit of her waves; while continual recurrences of ruin have defaced the glory of her sister cities. But such fragments as are still left in their lonely squares, and in the corners of their streets, so far from being inferior to the buildings of Yenice, are even more rich, more finished, more admirable in invention, more exuberant in beauty. And although, in the North of Europe, civilization was less advanced, and the knowledge of the arts was more confined to the ecclesiastical orders, so that, for domestic architecture, the period of perfection must be there placed much later than in Italy, and considered as extending to the middle of the fifteenth century ; yet, as each city reached a certain point in civilization, its streets became decorated with the same magnificence, varied, |
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