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n. PRIDE OF STATE. II. B0MAN RENAISSANCE. 71
canopy; and the two figures representing the Annunciation
are almost always at the angles ; the promise of the Birth of
Christ being taken as at once the ground and the type of the
promise of eternal life to all men.
§ liii. These figures are always in Yenice most rudely
chiselled; the progress of figure sculpture being there comparatively tardy. At Yerona, where the great Pisan school
had strong influence, the monumental sculpture is immeasurably finer; and, so early as about the year 1335,* the consummate form of the Gothic tomb occurs in the monument of Can
Grande della Scala at Yerona. It is set over the portal of the
chapel anciently belonging to the family. The sarcophagus is
sculptured with shallow bas-reliefs, representing (which is rare
in the tombs with which I am acquainted in Italy, unless they
are those of saints) the principal achievements of the warrior's
life, especially the siege of Yicenza and battle of Placenza;
these sculptures, however, form little more than a chased and
roughened groundwork for the fully relieved statues representing the Annunciation, projecting boldly from the front of
the sarcophagus. Above, the Lord of Yerona is laid in his
long robe of civil dignity, wearing the simple bonnet, consisting merely of a fillet bound round the brow, knotted and
falling on the shoulder. He is laid as asleep ; his arms crossed
upon his body, and his sword by his side. Above him, a bold
arched canopy is sustained by two projecting shafts, and on
the pinnacle of its roof is the statue of the knight on his war-
horse ; his helmet, dragon-winged and crested with the dog's
head, tossed back behind his shoulders, and the broad and
blazoned drapery floating back from his horse's breast,—so
truly drawn by the old workman from the life, that it seems
to wave in the wind, and the knight's spear to shake, and his
marble horse to be evermore quickening its pace, and starting
into heavier and hastier charge, as the silver clouds float past
behind it in the sky.
* Can Grande died in 1329: we can hardly allow more than five years foi
the erection of his tomb.
| 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 | 00000085 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | n. PRIDE OF STATE. II. B0MAN RENAISSANCE. 71 canopy; and the two figures representing the Annunciation are almost always at the angles ; the promise of the Birth of Christ being taken as at once the ground and the type of the promise of eternal life to all men. § liii. These figures are always in Yenice most rudely chiselled; the progress of figure sculpture being there comparatively tardy. At Yerona, where the great Pisan school had strong influence, the monumental sculpture is immeasurably finer; and, so early as about the year 1335,* the consummate form of the Gothic tomb occurs in the monument of Can Grande della Scala at Yerona. It is set over the portal of the chapel anciently belonging to the family. The sarcophagus is sculptured with shallow bas-reliefs, representing (which is rare in the tombs with which I am acquainted in Italy, unless they are those of saints) the principal achievements of the warrior's life, especially the siege of Yicenza and battle of Placenza; these sculptures, however, form little more than a chased and roughened groundwork for the fully relieved statues representing the Annunciation, projecting boldly from the front of the sarcophagus. Above, the Lord of Yerona is laid in his long robe of civil dignity, wearing the simple bonnet, consisting merely of a fillet bound round the brow, knotted and falling on the shoulder. He is laid as asleep ; his arms crossed upon his body, and his sword by his side. Above him, a bold arched canopy is sustained by two projecting shafts, and on the pinnacle of its roof is the statue of the knight on his war- horse ; his helmet, dragon-winged and crested with the dog's head, tossed back behind his shoulders, and the broad and blazoned drapery floating back from his horse's breast,—so truly drawn by the old workman from the life, that it seems to wave in the wind, and the knight's spear to shake, and his marble horse to be evermore quickening its pace, and starting into heavier and hastier charge, as the silver clouds float past behind it in the sky. * Can Grande died in 1329: we can hardly allow more than five years foi the erection of his tomb. |
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