Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- The Stones of Venice, Vol. II. (CONTANING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- FIRST, OR BYZANTINE, PERIOD
- SECOND, OR GOTHIC, PERIOD
- AUTHORS APPENDIX
- 1 THE GONDOLIER'S CRY
- 2 OUR LADY OF SALVATION
- 3 TIDES OF VENICE, AND MEASURES AT TORCELLO
- 4 DATE OF THE DUOMO OF TORCELLO
- 5 MODERN PULPITS
- 6 APSE OF MURANO
- 7 EARLY VENETIAN DRESS
- 8 INSCRIPTIONS AT MURANO
- 9 SHAFTS OF ST. MARK
- 10 PROPER SENSE OF THE WORD IDOLATRY
- 11 SITUATIONS OF BYZANTINE PALACES
- 12 MODERN PAINTING ON GLASS
- 13 LETTERS BY RUSKIN ON The Stones of Venice AND ITS INFLUENCE
- 14 PREFACE BY WILLIAM MORRIS TO CHAP. VI. (‘THE NATURE OF GOTHIC’)
- 15 NOTE BY THE AUTHOR TO CHAP. VIII. (‘THE DUCAL PALACE’)
- 16 THE CAPITALS OF THE DUCAL PALACE: LIST OF SUBJECTS
- Plate section
11 - SITUATIONS OF BYZANTINE PALACES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- The Stones of Venice, Vol. II. (CONTANING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- FIRST, OR BYZANTINE, PERIOD
- SECOND, OR GOTHIC, PERIOD
- AUTHORS APPENDIX
- 1 THE GONDOLIER'S CRY
- 2 OUR LADY OF SALVATION
- 3 TIDES OF VENICE, AND MEASURES AT TORCELLO
- 4 DATE OF THE DUOMO OF TORCELLO
- 5 MODERN PULPITS
- 6 APSE OF MURANO
- 7 EARLY VENETIAN DRESS
- 8 INSCRIPTIONS AT MURANO
- 9 SHAFTS OF ST. MARK
- 10 PROPER SENSE OF THE WORD IDOLATRY
- 11 SITUATIONS OF BYZANTINE PALACES
- 12 MODERN PAINTING ON GLASS
- 13 LETTERS BY RUSKIN ON The Stones of Venice AND ITS INFLUENCE
- 14 PREFACE BY WILLIAM MORRIS TO CHAP. VI. (‘THE NATURE OF GOTHIC’)
- 15 NOTE BY THE AUTHOR TO CHAP. VIII. (‘THE DUCAL PALACE’)
- 16 THE CAPITALS OF THE DUCAL PALACE: LIST OF SUBJECTS
- Plate section
Summary
THE TERRACED HOUSE
The most conspicuous pile in the midmost reach of the Grand Canal is the Casa Grimani, now the Post-Office. Letting his boat lie by the steps of this great palace, the traveller will see, on the other side of the canal, a building with a small terrace in front of it, and a little court with a door to the water, beside the terrace. Half of the house is visibly modern, and there is a great seam, like the edge of a scar, between it and the ancient remnant, in which the circular bands of the Byzantine arches will be instantly recognised. This building not having, as far as I know, any name except that of its present proprietor, I shall in future distinguish it simply as the Terraced House.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 453 - 455Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904