[Ruskin.]
[150] "To God the Lord, the glorious Virgin Annunciate, and the
Protector St. Mark."--Corner, p. 14. It is needless to trouble the
reader with the various authorities for the above statements: I
have consulted the best. The previous inscription once existing on
the church itself:
Anno milleno transacto bisque trigeno Desuper undecimo fuit facta
primo,
is no longer to be seen, and is conjectured by Corner, with much
probability, to have perished "in qualche ristauro." [Ruskin.]
[151] Signed Bartolomeus Bozza, 1634, 1647, 1656, etc. [Ruskin.]
[152] An obvious slip. The mosaic is on the west wall of the south
transept. [Cook and Wedderburn.]
[153] _Guida di Venezia_, p. 6. [Ruskin.]
[154] Fritters and liquors for sale.
[155] _Antony and Cleopatra_, 2. 5. 29.
[156] Matthew xxi, 12 and _John_ ii, 16.
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
VOLUME II, CHAPTER 6
I believe, then, that the characteristic or moral elements of Gothic
are the following, placed in the order of their importance:
1. Savageness.
2. Changefulness.
3. Naturalism.
4. Grotesqueness.
5. Rigidity.
6. Redundance.
These characters are here expressed as belonging to the building; as
belonging to the builder, they would be expressed thus:--1.
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