Wall-Veil Decoration

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Wall-veil decoration
San Michele, Lucca.

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Artist

Name:
Ruskin, John
Dates:
1819-1900
Country:
UK

Illustration

Subjects:
Buildings & Monuments, Ornaments & Patterns
Technique:
Metal Engraving
Engraver:
Armytage, James Charles
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
The stones of Venice, vol. 1
Author:
Ruskin, John
Publisher:
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1851
Open Library:
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Description:

Southern side of the lower arcade of the west front at San Michele in Foro, Lucca. It is described by Ruskin as follows:

St. Michele of Lucca is wrought entirely in white marble and green serpentine; there is hardly any relieved sculpture except in the capitals of the shafts and cornices, and all the designs of wall ornament are inlaid with exquisite precision—white on dark ground: the ground being cut out and filled with serpentine, the figures left in solid marble.

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