[131] The Tenth Plague of Egypt. [Ruskin.]
[132] Rizpah, the Daughter of Aiah. [Ruskin.]
[133] Duerer [1471-1528], German painter, engraver, and designer.
Salvator [1615-73], Italian painter, etcher, satirical poet, and
musical composer.
[134] _I.e._, between November 17, 1796, and June 18, 1815.
[135] _Joel_ iii, 13.
SELECTIONS FROM
THE STONES OF VENICE
The first volume of _The Stones of Venice_ appeared in March, 1851; the
first day of May of the same year we find the following entry in
Ruskin's diary: "About to enter on the true beginning of the second
part of my Venetian work. May God help me to finish it--to His glory,
and man's good." The main part of the volume was composed at Venice in
the winter of 1851-52, though it did not appear until the end of July,
1853. His work on architecture, including _The Seven Lamps_, it will be
noted, intervenes between the composition of the second and third
volumes of _Modern Painters_; and Ruskin himself always looked upon
the work as an interlude, almost as an interruption. But he also came
to believe that this digression had really led back to the heart of
the truth for all art. Its main theme, as in _The Seven Lamps of
Architecture_, is its illustration of the principle that architecture
expresses certain states in the moral temper of the people by and for
whom it is produced.
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