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Loggia of the Ducal Palace, Venice

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Date

1849-1850

Artist

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/342383

Description

Ruskin painstakingly depicted the shafts, capitals, and ogival lacework of Venice's most famous Gothic loggia. The red tinge to the first two shafts comes from the use of a different colored marble to mark the place from which sentences of death were proclaimed. Through the loggia, Saint Mark's Basilica is visible. Ruskin, one of the most influential voices in the nineteenth-century art world, had a lasting love for Venice; among his most influential writings was a lengthy study of its history and architecture, The Stones of Venice (1851-53). His impassioned advocacy of the Venetian Gothic was a significant source for Gothic Revival architecture. Medium: watercolor over graphite.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Doge's Palace, Piazza San Marco, Venice, Veneto, Italy

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Palaces

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Buildings & Architecture

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