Broletto of Como
Date
1851
Creator
Thomas Shotter Boys (1803 - 1874, British) , Engraver
After
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900, British) , Art critic
Object type
Library reference
R61623
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 250mm
width (page): 180mm
height (page): 210mm
width (page): 130mm
width (page): 180mm
height (page): 210mm
width (page): 130mm
Subject
Description
Architectural study of a window of the Broletto of Como, Venice, showing a large outer-arch in the Gothic style, containing three inner-arches and a sun-cross.
Written in the associated description: ‘It shows, in its filling, first, the single-pieced arch, carried on groups of four shafts, and a single slab of marble filling the space above, and pierced with a quatrefoil (Mont-Cenisian, this), while the mouldings above are each constructed with a separate system of voussoirs […]’.
Inscribed: ‘I. Ruskin. T.S. Boys./ Arch Masonry./ BROLETTO OF COMO.’
Plate V from John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice, vol. 2 (London, 1851).
John Ruskin (1819–1900), British art critic and social critic, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Written in the associated description: ‘It shows, in its filling, first, the single-pieced arch, carried on groups of four shafts, and a single slab of marble filling the space above, and pierced with a quatrefoil (Mont-Cenisian, this), while the mouldings above are each constructed with a separate system of voussoirs […]’.
Inscribed: ‘I. Ruskin. T.S. Boys./ Arch Masonry./ BROLETTO OF COMO.’
Plate V from John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice, vol. 2 (London, 1851).
John Ruskin (1819–1900), British art critic and social critic, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Associated place