The works of John Ruskin (1903) (14763288124)

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Title: The works of John Ruskin
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Cook, Edward Tyas), Sir, 1857-1919 Wedderburn, Alexander D. O. (Dundas Ogilvy), 1854-1931
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Publisher: London, G. Allen New York, Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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spandril decorations of Bayeux Cathe-dral is given in the Seven Lamps, Plate VII., Fig. 4.^ It islittle more than one of these Euston Square spandrils with itscircles foliated. Sometimes the circle is entirely pierced; at other timesit is merely suggested by a mosaic or light tracery on thewall surface, as in Plate 14, which is one of the spandrUsof the Ducal Palace at Venice. It was evidently intendedthat all the spandrils of this building should be decoratedin this manner, but only two of them seem to have beencompleted.* § 10. The other modes of spandril fiUing may be broadlyreduced to four heads. (1.) Free figure sculpture, as in theChapter - house of Salisbury, and very superbly along thewest front of Bourges, the best Gothic spandrils I know.(2.) Radiated foliage, more or less referred to the centre, orto the bottom of the spandril for its origin; single figureswith expanded wings often answering the same purpose. * Vide end of Appendix 20 (p. 459). (Vol. VIIL, facing p. 128.)
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Decoration XXVI. WALL VEIL AND SHAFT 353 (3.) Trefoils; and (4.), ordinary wall decoration, continuedinto the spandril space, as in Plate 13, from St. Pietro atPistoja, and in Westminster Abbey. The Renaissance archi-tects introduced spandrU fillings composed of colossal humanfigures reclining on the sides of the arch, in precariouslassitude; but these cannot come under the head of wallveil decoration.^ § 11. (2.) The Tympanum. It was noted ^ that, in Gothicarchitecture, this is for the most part a detached slab of stone,having no constructional relation to the rest of the building.The plan of its sculpture is therefore quite arbitrary; andas it is generally in a conspicuous position, near the eye, andabove the entrance, it is almost always charged with a seriesof rich figure sculptures, solemn in feeling and consecutive insubject. It occupies in Christian sacred edifices very nearlythe position of the pediment in Greek sculpture. This latteris itself a kind of tympanum, and charged

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