John Ruskin’s mentions of Rouen, France

[This list is based upon both the index in volume 39 of the Cook and Wedderburn Library Edition and searches on the electronic texts of Ruskin’s works as they beconme available. Following the Library Edition index, this list divides into three main categories: (1) Ruskin in Rouen, and general references — (2) the Cathedral — (3) other buildings]

Ruskin in Rouen

Ruskin in Rouen, (1835) 2, 399-400, 430, 35, 156
drawings at, 2, 400, 430 (Plates 18, 20), (1840) 1, 42, 9
hunting down Turner’s views, 35, 626, (1842) 3, xxiii.
(1844) 12, 43??, (1848) 8, xxixn., xxx., xxxi.-ii.
distress at, 8, xxxiii., (1866) 18, xxxvi., (1880) 33, xxivn., 34, 469, 471
architecture of, illustrated in Seven Lamps, 8, 6
Ruskin’s early pleasure in the style, 22, 189
charm of, to Ruskin, in contrast with home surroundings, 35, 133
description of, in old days, 12, 310-1
intended book on, “Domrémy,” 33, 186, 35, 158
meeting of Bishop Hugo and Coeur de Lion at, 33, 518
modern “improvements” and destruction at, 4, 37, 12, 427, 8, 23, 23, 37,183
one of Ruskin’s three “thought-centres,” 35, 156,15 8, 371
Prout on Ruskin’s fondness for, 35, 631
Prout’s records of, 12, 314, 315
slums in, 29, 392, 470
street architecture, 12, 36, 427
compared with modern London, 9, 403, 11, 4
various references, 1, 13, 27, 244, 35, 623
various drawings by Ruskin, 38, 278.

Cathedral

bases and spurs, 9, 340 (Plate 11, Figure 15)
capitals and bases, 9, 14, 9, 336 (Plate 10, fig. 28) [photographs on this site: capitals; bases]
cast-iron central spire, 8, 67, 107 [photographs on this site: detail]
casts of sculptures from, 36, 168-9, (Architectural Museum) 12, lxxi., (Sheffield) 30, lvi., 189
characteristic of Northern architecture, contrasted with S., 9, 188
choir-windows, proportion in mouldings, 8, 166
dexterity in filling of sections, 8, 45, 6 (Plate 4, figs. 6, 7) dogtooth, treatment of, 9, 322
façade: — central door, photograph of, 19, 266 (Plate 13), 277
exquisite example of flamboyant, 8, 52, 19, 277
a niche on, 8, 52, 123 (Plate 1, Figure i)
wealth of ornament, 8, 52-53 disposition of ornament [photographs on this site: over interior doorways]
an example of resolute industry, 19, 153-54
gable, 10, 250 (Figure 10c)
how to be represented in painting, 6, 318
“kingly crowning,” 8, 136
model of grandeur, 34, 415
new blocks of uncarved stone inserted, 12, 310
North door, drawing of (Randal), 30, 218
photo, by Burgess, 30, 189 (Plate 9)
leafage on pilasters, 9, 299n.

lizard on the base, 9, 344
overpowering impression made by, 5, xxvi.
ideas of power conveyed by, 3, 94
pediment, etc., delicate work, 19, 390n
but degenerate flamboyant, 8, 49, 52
proportion in, 8, 165
supervening designs in, 8, 165
flamboyant traceries once common to every house 10, 120
linear Gothic, example from round a window, 10, 262 (Plate 12, Figure. 1) figs, 8, 132, 133 (Plate . i, fig. 2)
one of the great French cathedrals, 6, 436, 34, 503 painted
glass windows, 12, 4, 35, 436, 441, 15, 496
lives of the Saints on, 16, 327
piercings in nave chapel and transept towers, 8, 88 (Plate 3, Figures 2, 5) [photographs on this site: transept]
plan of piers, 9, 133 (Plate 2, Figure 15)
Pediment of the west front, 48
recent traceries, 23, 95
"restoration" of, 12, 3, 10, 422, 425-6
Ruskin ’s photographs of, taken by A.Burgess, 14, 355
spitting in, 25, 127

towers

of West front, 23, 215
the one at North-West angle, 12, 43 (Fig. 12)
the one at South-West, "Tour de Beurre," 8, 50n., 107; 12, 45n
disposition of ornament on, 8, 50
projection of niches in old storey, 8, 108
of transepts, ornaments, 8, 129 (Plate 7, Figure 5)
withheld on invisible side, 8, 47
traceries, 8, 88, 91n., 131, 165

transepts

proper style for modern Gothic, 8, 12, 278
richly decorated form of gable overarch, 12, 35
richness diminishing upwards, 8, 49, 12, 92
sculpture of, 16, 283n., 36, 168-69
North transept door: — beauty of, standard of decoration, 8, 259, 12, 425, 34, 503

one of the two most beautiful pieces of Gothic in the world, 19, 262
bas-reliefs, 8, 49, 216 (Plate 14), 217 and., 9, 4, 33, 21, 178, 30, 21, 8, buttress, panel decoration, noble
tracery, 8, 89-91, 165
proportion and symmetry in mouldings, 8, 90, 165-6 (Plate 10, Figures 2-4), 172
South transept, drawings, etc., of, 21, 29, 25, 9,86, 371 (Plate 25)
Gothic on the edge of decline, 19, 257, 275
sculpture described, 20, 321-2
statue of Madonna, 16, 324
view of, at different distances, 9, 302
various references, 8,69n., 23, 89, 238, 340.
See also Catalogues of Drawings, 21, 41, 17, 8, 259n., 30, 218, 38, 278