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ABC/99
Title
The stones of Venice in 3 vols. Vol II.
Date(s)
- 1886 (Creation)
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1 volume
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(8 Feb 1819–20 Jan 1900)
Biographical history
Leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.
ODNB Entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/24291
ODNB Entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/24291
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The second of three volumes that offers an in-depth study of the use of stone in Venetian Architecture. The list of contents includes: The Byzantine Period (The Throne, Torcello, Murano, St. Mark's, Byzantine Palaces); Gothic Period (The Nature of Gothic, Gothic Palaces, The Ducal Palace). Appendix: The Gondolier's Cry; Our Lady of Salvation; Tides of Venice, and Measures at Torcello; Date of the Duomo of Torcello; Modern Pulpits; Apse of Murano; Early Venetian Dress; Inscriptions at Murano; Shafts of St. Mark; Proper Sense of the Word Idolatry; Situations of Byzantine Palaces; Modern Painting on Glass; Additional Notes. List of Plates: Plans of Torcello and Murano; The Acanthus of Torcello; Inlaid Bands of Murano; Sculptures of Murano; Archivolt in the Duomo of Murano; The Vine; Byzantine Capitals; Lily Capital of St. Mark's; The Four Venetian Flower Orders; Byzantine Sculptures; Linear and Surface Gothic; Balconies; The Order of Venetian Arches; Windows of the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Orders; Windows of the Early Gothic Palaces, Vine Angle and Venetian Capitals.
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- English
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Good condition, some loose pages