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n. PRIDE of STATE. II. ROMAN RENAISSANCE. 69
no religious meaning whatever; while the Italian sarcophagi
are kept massive, smoth, and gloomy,—heavy-lidded dungeons of stone, like rock-tombs,—but bearing on their surface,
sculptured with tender and narrow lines, the emblem of the
cross, not presumptuously nor proudly, but dimly graven
upon their granite, like the hope which the human heart holds,
but hardly perceives in its heaviness.
§ l. Among the tombs in front of the Church of St. John
and Paul there is one which is peculiarly illustrative of the
simplicity of these earlier ages. It is on the left of the
entrance, a massy sarcophagus with low horns as of an altar,
placed in a rude recess of the outside wall, shattered and worn,
and here and there entangled among wild grass and weeds.
Yet it is the tomb of two Doges, Jacopo and Lorenzo Tiepolo,
by one of whom nearly the whole ground was given for the
erection of the noble church in front of which his unprotected
tomb is wasting away. The sarcophagus bears an inscription
in the centre, describing the acts of the Doges, of which the
letters show that it was added a considerable period after the
erection of the tomb : the original legend is still left in other
letters on its base, to this effect,
"Lord James, died 1251. Lord Laurence, died 1288."
At the two corners of the sarcophagus are two angels bearing
censers ; and on its lid two birds, with crosses like crests upon
their heads. For the sake of the traveller in Yenice the
reader will, I think, pardon me the momentary irrelevancy of
telling the meaning of these symbols.
§ li. The foundation of the church of St. John and Paul
was laid by the Dominicans about 1234, under the immediate
/protection of the Senate and the Doge Giacomo Tiepolo,
accorded to them in consequence of a miraculous vision
appearing to the Doge; of which the following account is
given in popular tradition :
" In the year 1226, the Doge Giacomo Tiepolo dreamed a
dream; and in his dream he saw the little oratory of the
Dominicans, and, behold, the ground all around it (now occu-
| 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 | 00000083 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | n. PRIDE of STATE. II. ROMAN RENAISSANCE. 69 no religious meaning whatever; while the Italian sarcophagi are kept massive, smoth, and gloomy,—heavy-lidded dungeons of stone, like rock-tombs,—but bearing on their surface, sculptured with tender and narrow lines, the emblem of the cross, not presumptuously nor proudly, but dimly graven upon their granite, like the hope which the human heart holds, but hardly perceives in its heaviness. § l. Among the tombs in front of the Church of St. John and Paul there is one which is peculiarly illustrative of the simplicity of these earlier ages. It is on the left of the entrance, a massy sarcophagus with low horns as of an altar, placed in a rude recess of the outside wall, shattered and worn, and here and there entangled among wild grass and weeds. Yet it is the tomb of two Doges, Jacopo and Lorenzo Tiepolo, by one of whom nearly the whole ground was given for the erection of the noble church in front of which his unprotected tomb is wasting away. The sarcophagus bears an inscription in the centre, describing the acts of the Doges, of which the letters show that it was added a considerable period after the erection of the tomb : the original legend is still left in other letters on its base, to this effect, "Lord James, died 1251. Lord Laurence, died 1288." At the two corners of the sarcophagus are two angels bearing censers ; and on its lid two birds, with crosses like crests upon their heads. For the sake of the traveller in Yenice the reader will, I think, pardon me the momentary irrelevancy of telling the meaning of these symbols. § li. The foundation of the church of St. John and Paul was laid by the Dominicans about 1234, under the immediate /protection of the Senate and the Doge Giacomo Tiepolo, accorded to them in consequence of a miraculous vision appearing to the Doge; of which the following account is given in popular tradition : " In the year 1226, the Doge Giacomo Tiepolo dreamed a dream; and in his dream he saw the little oratory of the Dominicans, and, behold, the ground all around it (now occu- |
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