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CUSPS.
10. FINAL APPENDIX.
255
supported either by the main shafts of the traceries, or by its
own small pilasters with semi-shafts at their sides, of the plan
d, Fig. II., in a continuous balcony, and e at the angle of one.
There is one more very curious circumstance illustrative of
the Venetian desire to obtain horizontal pressure. In all the
Gothic staircases with which I am acquainted, out of Venice, in
which vertical shafts are used to support an inclined line, those
shafts are connected by arches rising each above the other, with
a little bracket above the capitals, on the side where it is necessary to raise .the arch ; or else, though less gracefully, with a
longer curve to the lowest side of the arch.
But the Venetians seem to have had a morbid horror of
arches which were not on a level. They could not endure the
appearance of the roof of one arch bearing against the side of
another; and rather than introduce the idea of obliquity into
bearing curves, they abandoned the arch principle altogether; so
that even in their richest Gothic staircases, where trefoiled
arches, exquisitely decorated, are used on the landings, they ran
the shafts on the sloping stair simply into the bar of stone above
them, and used the excessively ugly and valueless arrangement
of Fig. II., rather than sacrifice the sacred horizontality of their
arch system.
It will be noted, in Plate XL, that the form and character of
the tracery bars themselves are independent of the position or
projection of the cusps on their flat sides. In this respect, also,
Fig. rv.
Venetian traceries are peculiar, the example 22 of the Porta della
Carta being the only one in the plate which is subordinated ao-
| 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 | 00000285 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | CUSPS. 10. FINAL APPENDIX. 255 supported either by the main shafts of the traceries, or by its own small pilasters with semi-shafts at their sides, of the plan d, Fig. II., in a continuous balcony, and e at the angle of one. There is one more very curious circumstance illustrative of the Venetian desire to obtain horizontal pressure. In all the Gothic staircases with which I am acquainted, out of Venice, in which vertical shafts are used to support an inclined line, those shafts are connected by arches rising each above the other, with a little bracket above the capitals, on the side where it is necessary to raise .the arch ; or else, though less gracefully, with a longer curve to the lowest side of the arch. But the Venetians seem to have had a morbid horror of arches which were not on a level. They could not endure the appearance of the roof of one arch bearing against the side of another; and rather than introduce the idea of obliquity into bearing curves, they abandoned the arch principle altogether; so that even in their richest Gothic staircases, where trefoiled arches, exquisitely decorated, are used on the landings, they ran the shafts on the sloping stair simply into the bar of stone above them, and used the excessively ugly and valueless arrangement of Fig. II., rather than sacrifice the sacred horizontality of their arch system. It will be noted, in Plate XL, that the form and character of the tracery bars themselves are independent of the position or projection of the cusps on their flat sides. In this respect, also, Fig. rv. Venetian traceries are peculiar, the example 22 of the Porta della Carta being the only one in the plate which is subordinated ao- |
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