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III. GROTESQUE RENAISSANCE. 115
guide, tells us that this Barbetta rebuilt the church in
the fourteenth century ; and that of the two facades, so much
admired by Corner, one is of the sixteenth century, and its
architect unknown; and the rest of the church is of the seventeenth, " in the style of Sansovino."
§ vi. There is no occasion to examine, or endeavor to reconcile, these conflicting accounts. All that is necessary for the
reader to know is, that every vestige of the church in which
the ceremony took place was destroyed at least as early as
1689; and that the ceremony itself, having been abolished in
the close of the fourteenth century, is only to be conceived as
taking place in that more ancient church, resembling St.
Mark's, which, even according to Quadri, existed until that
period. I would, therefore, endeavor to fix the reader's
mind, for a moment, on the contrast between the former and
latter aspect of this plot of ground; the former, when it had
its Byzantine church, and its yearly procession of the Doge
and the Brides; and the latter, when it has its Renaissance
church " in the style of Sansovino," and its yearly honoring is
done away.
§ vii. And, first, let us consider for a little the significance
and nobleness of that early custom of the Yenetians, which
brought about the attack and the rescue of the year 943 : that
there should be but one marriage day for the nobles of the
whole nation,* so that all might rejoice together; and that
the sympathy might be full, not only of the families who that
year beheld the alliance of their children, and prayed for
them in one crowd, weeping before the altar, but of all the
families of the state, who saw, in the day which brought happiness to others, the anniversary of their own. Imagine the
strong bond of brotherhood thus sanctified among them, and
consider also the effect on the minds of the youth of the state;
the greater deliberation and openness necessarily given to the
contemplation of marriage, to which all the people were
* Or at least for its principal families. Tide Appendix 8, "Early Yenetian Marriages."
| 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 | 00000129 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | III. GROTESQUE RENAISSANCE. 115 guide, tells us that this Barbetta rebuilt the church in the fourteenth century ; and that of the two facades, so much admired by Corner, one is of the sixteenth century, and its architect unknown; and the rest of the church is of the seventeenth, " in the style of Sansovino." § vi. There is no occasion to examine, or endeavor to reconcile, these conflicting accounts. All that is necessary for the reader to know is, that every vestige of the church in which the ceremony took place was destroyed at least as early as 1689; and that the ceremony itself, having been abolished in the close of the fourteenth century, is only to be conceived as taking place in that more ancient church, resembling St. Mark's, which, even according to Quadri, existed until that period. I would, therefore, endeavor to fix the reader's mind, for a moment, on the contrast between the former and latter aspect of this plot of ground; the former, when it had its Byzantine church, and its yearly procession of the Doge and the Brides; and the latter, when it has its Renaissance church " in the style of Sansovino," and its yearly honoring is done away. § vii. And, first, let us consider for a little the significance and nobleness of that early custom of the Yenetians, which brought about the attack and the rescue of the year 943 : that there should be but one marriage day for the nobles of the whole nation,* so that all might rejoice together; and that the sympathy might be full, not only of the families who that year beheld the alliance of their children, and prayed for them in one crowd, weeping before the altar, but of all the families of the state, who saw, in the day which brought happiness to others, the anniversary of their own. Imagine the strong bond of brotherhood thus sanctified among them, and consider also the effect on the minds of the youth of the state; the greater deliberation and openness necessarily given to the contemplation of marriage, to which all the people were * Or at least for its principal families. Tide Appendix 8, "Early Yenetian Marriages." |
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