Fragments from Abbeville, Lucca, Venice and Pisa
John Ruskin
R. P. Cuff, engraver
1855
7 3/16 x 4 5/32 inches
Plate XII, The Seven Lamps of Architecture in Works, 8.199
As the "Index to the Plates" (8.xvii) points out, this plate refers to the following pages:
- Pillar and spandrel from a panel decoration under the pulpit of St. Mark's, Venice (p. 199)
- Patterns on the columns of San Michele, Lucca (p. 183)
- Window in the towers of Abbeville (p. 211)
- Arch Mouldings on the pulpit of St. Andrea at Pistoja, by Niccolò Pisano (p. 200)
- An example of vertical proportion from the flower stem of the Alisma Plantago (p. 168)
- Section of joint in the same (p. 169)
- Square Panelling from the arches of the Cathedral of Pisa (pp. 111, 145)
- Pattern of the arabesque on the blacony shown in Plate XI (p. 175)
Scanned image and text by George P. Landow