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San Michele, Lucca.
Artist
- Name:
- Ruskin, John
- Dates:
- 1819-1900
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- 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(s):
- Ruskin, John
- Publisher:
- London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1851
- Open Library:
- View record.
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.
Keywords: 1850s, 19th century, black & white, church, Europe, Italy, reference book, The stones of Venice, Venice, Victorian
