Examples of Architecture of Venice - Palace in Rio di Ca' Foscari, Conjectural RestorationBy James Charles Armytage, John Ruskin 1887 Accession number: 1920P668 Line engraving on paper. Width: 636 mm Height: 434 mm Information'Examples of the Architecture of Venice' was a folio of plates first published in 1851 in connection with Ruskin's book on Venetian architecture, 'The Stones of Venice.' The preface to the folio explains that: ' Mr Ruskin has found it impossible to reduce to the size of an octavo volume all the sketches made to illustrate his intended Essay on Venetian architecture; at least, without loss of accuracy in detail: he has thought it better to separate some of the plates from the text, than either to throw the latter into a folio form, or diminish the fidelity of the drawings.' Ruskin selected 16 of his drawings of architectural details to be published as plates in a large format folio each accompanied by an explanatory text. This is one of three plates depicting various views of a Byzantine ruin in Venice. In this illustration Ruskin has reconstructed the design of the building as it would have looked when first built. He suggests that 'the shafts were in all probability of white marble, the archivolts richly gilded, perhaps in the hollows of the carving touched with blue.'
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