Examples of Architecture of Venice - Door Heads in Campiello Della Chiesa San LucaBy James Charles Armytage, John Ruskin 1887 Accession number: 1920P671 Line engraving on paper. Width: 435 mm Height: 635 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 a plate from the 1887 edition published by G. Allen. Ruskin appears to have been highly enthusiastic about this example of a Venetian door-head. He informed his readers that 'this remarkable tympanum, evidently of the same school and date (thirteenth century) as that figured in the last Plate [1920P671], is one of the most elaborate pieces of brickwork in Venice, next to the door of Campo S. Margherita. It is an entrance to a courtyard; and must have been singularly beautiful before the sculpture on the pieces of inlaid stone was defaced.'
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