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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- THE STONES OF VENICE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1851)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (1874)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE TRAVELLERS' EDITION (1879)
- CHAP. I THE QUARRY
- CHAP. II THE VIRTUES OF ARCHITECTURE
- CHAP. III THE SIX DIVISIONS OF ARCHITECTURE
- CHAP. IV THE WALL BASE
- CHAP. V THE WALL VEIL
- CHAP. VI THE WALL CORNICE
- CHAP. VII THE PIER BASE
- CHAP. VIII THE SHAFT
- CHAP. IX THE CAPITAL
- CHAP. X THE ARCH LINE
- CHAP. XI THE ARCH MASONRY
- CHAP. XII THE ARCH LOAD
- CHAP. XIII THE ROOF
- CHAP. XIV THE ROOF CORNICE
- CHAP. XV THE BUTTRESS
- CHAP. XVI FORM OF APERTURE
- CHAP. XVII FILLING OF APERTURE
- CHAP. XVIII PROTECTION OF APERTURE
- CHAP. XIX SUPERIMPOSITION
- CHAP. XX THE MATERIAL OF ORNAMENT
- CHAP. XXI TREATMENT OF ORNAMENT
- CHAP. XXII THE ANGLE
- CHAP. XXIII THE EDGE AND FILLET
- CHAP. XXIV THE ROLL AND RECESS
- CHAP. XXV THE BASE
- CHAP. XXVI THE WALL VEIL AND SHAFT
- CHAP. XXVII THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL
- CHAP. XXVIII THE ARCHIVOLT AND APERTURE
- CHAP. XXIX THE ROOF
- CHAP. XXX THE VESTIBULE
- AUTHOR'S APPENDIX
- Plate section
CHAP. XXIV - THE ROLL AND RECESS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- THE STONES OF VENICE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1851)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (1874)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE TRAVELLERS' EDITION (1879)
- CHAP. I THE QUARRY
- CHAP. II THE VIRTUES OF ARCHITECTURE
- CHAP. III THE SIX DIVISIONS OF ARCHITECTURE
- CHAP. IV THE WALL BASE
- CHAP. V THE WALL VEIL
- CHAP. VI THE WALL CORNICE
- CHAP. VII THE PIER BASE
- CHAP. VIII THE SHAFT
- CHAP. IX THE CAPITAL
- CHAP. X THE ARCH LINE
- CHAP. XI THE ARCH MASONRY
- CHAP. XII THE ARCH LOAD
- CHAP. XIII THE ROOF
- CHAP. XIV THE ROOF CORNICE
- CHAP. XV THE BUTTRESS
- CHAP. XVI FORM OF APERTURE
- CHAP. XVII FILLING OF APERTURE
- CHAP. XVIII PROTECTION OF APERTURE
- CHAP. XIX SUPERIMPOSITION
- CHAP. XX THE MATERIAL OF ORNAMENT
- CHAP. XXI TREATMENT OF ORNAMENT
- CHAP. XXII THE ANGLE
- CHAP. XXIII THE EDGE AND FILLET
- CHAP. XXIV THE ROLL AND RECESS
- CHAP. XXV THE BASE
- CHAP. XXVI THE WALL VEIL AND SHAFT
- CHAP. XXVII THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL
- CHAP. XXVIII THE ARCHIVOLT AND APERTURE
- CHAP. XXIX THE ROOF
- CHAP. XXX THE VESTIBULE
- AUTHOR'S APPENDIX
- Plate section
Summary
§ 1. I have classed these two means of architectural effect together, because the one is in most cases the negative of the other, and is used to relieve it exactly as shadow relieves light; recess alternating with roll, not only in lateral, but in successive order; not merely side by side with each other, but interrupted the one by the other in their own lines. A recess itself has properly no decoration; but its depth gives value to the decoration which flanks, encloses, or interrupts it, and the form which interrupts it best is the roll.
§ 2. I use the word roll generally for any mouldings which present to the eye somewhat the appearance of being cylindrical, and look like round rods. When upright they are in appearance, if not in fact, small shafts; and are a kind of bent shaft, even when used in archivolts and traceries;—when horizontal, they confuse themselves with cornices, and are, in fact, generally to be considered as the best means of drawing an architectural line in any direction, the soft curve of their side obtaining some shadow at nearly all times of the day, and that more tender and grateful to the eye than can be obtained either by an incision or by any other form of projection.
§ 3. Their decorative power is, however, too slight for rich work, and they frequently require, like the angle and the fillet, to be rendered interesting by subdivision or minor ornament of their own.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 328 - 332Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1903