The first of three volumes that offer an in-depth study of the use of stone in Venetian Architecture. The list of contents includes: Preface; The Quary; The Virtues of Architecture; The Six Divisions of Architecture; The Wall Base; The Wall Veil; The Wall Cornice; The Pier Base; The Shaft; The Capital; The Arch Line; The Arch Masonry; The Arch Load; The Roof; The Roof Cornice; The Buttress; Form of Aperture; Filling of Aperture; Superimposition; The Material of Ornament; Treaatment of Ornament; The Angle; The Edge and Fillet; The Roll and Recess; The Base; The Wall Veil and Shaft; The Cornice and Capital; The Archivolt and Aperture; The Roof; The Vestibule. Appendix: Foundation of Venice; Power of the Doges; Serrar del Consiglio; S. Pietro di Castello; Papal Power in Venice; Renaissance Ornaments; Varieties of the Orders; The Northern Energy; Wooden Churches of the North; Wooden Churches of the North; Church of Alexandria; Renaissance Landscape; Romanist Modern Art; Mr. Ferguson's System; Divisions of Humanity; Instinctive Judgements; Answer to Mr. Garbett; Early English Capitals; Tombs of St. Anastasia; Shafts of the Ducal Palace; Ancient Representations of Water; Arabian Ornamentation; Varieties of Chamfer; Renaissance Bases; Romanist Decoration of Bases; Additional Notes. List of plates: Wall Veil Decoration; Plans of Piers; Arch Masonry; Types of Towers; Abstract Lines; Edge Decoration; Profiles of Bases; Plans of Bases; Decoration of Bases; Spandril Decoration; Cornice Profiles; Cornice Decoration; Capitals-Concave; Capitals-Convex; Archivolt Decoration, Verona.
Ruskin, John (1819-1900), art critic
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.
Ruskin, John (1819-1900), art critic
