Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- The Stones of Venice, Vol. II. (CONTANING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- FIRST, OR BYZANTINE, PERIOD
- SECOND, OR GOTHIC, PERIOD
- AUTHORS APPENDIX
- 1 THE GONDOLIER'S CRY
- 2 OUR LADY OF SALVATION
- 3 TIDES OF VENICE, AND MEASURES AT TORCELLO
- 4 DATE OF THE DUOMO OF TORCELLO
- 5 MODERN PULPITS
- 6 APSE OF MURANO
- 7 EARLY VENETIAN DRESS
- 8 INSCRIPTIONS AT MURANO
- 9 SHAFTS OF ST. MARK
- 10 PROPER SENSE OF THE WORD IDOLATRY
- 11 SITUATIONS OF BYZANTINE PALACES
- 12 MODERN PAINTING ON GLASS
- 13 LETTERS BY RUSKIN ON The Stones of Venice AND ITS INFLUENCE
- 14 PREFACE BY WILLIAM MORRIS TO CHAP. VI. (‘THE NATURE OF GOTHIC’)
- 15 NOTE BY THE AUTHOR TO CHAP. VIII. (‘THE DUCAL PALACE’)
- 16 THE CAPITALS OF THE DUCAL PALACE: LIST OF SUBJECTS
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2 - OUR LADY OF SALVATION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- The Stones of Venice, Vol. II. (CONTANING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- FIRST, OR BYZANTINE, PERIOD
- SECOND, OR GOTHIC, PERIOD
- AUTHORS APPENDIX
- 1 THE GONDOLIER'S CRY
- 2 OUR LADY OF SALVATION
- 3 TIDES OF VENICE, AND MEASURES AT TORCELLO
- 4 DATE OF THE DUOMO OF TORCELLO
- 5 MODERN PULPITS
- 6 APSE OF MURANO
- 7 EARLY VENETIAN DRESS
- 8 INSCRIPTIONS AT MURANO
- 9 SHAFTS OF ST. MARK
- 10 PROPER SENSE OF THE WORD IDOLATRY
- 11 SITUATIONS OF BYZANTINE PALACES
- 12 MODERN PAINTING ON GLASS
- 13 LETTERS BY RUSKIN ON The Stones of Venice AND ITS INFLUENCE
- 14 PREFACE BY WILLIAM MORRIS TO CHAP. VI. (‘THE NATURE OF GOTHIC’)
- 15 NOTE BY THE AUTHOR TO CHAP. VIII. (‘THE DUCAL PALACE’)
- 16 THE CAPITALS OF THE DUCAL PALACE: LIST OF SUBJECTS
- Plate section
Summary
“Santa Maria Della Salute,” Our Lady of Health, or of Safety, would be a more literal translation, yet not perhaps fully expressing the force of the Italian word in this case. The church was built between 1630 and 1680, in acknowledgment of the cessation of the plague;—of course to the Virgin, to whom the modern Italian has recourse in all his principal distresses, and who receives his gratitude for all principal deliverances.
The hasty traveller is usually enthusiastic in his admiration of this building; but there is a notable lesson to be derived from it, which is not often read. On the opposite side of the broad canal of the Giudecca is a small church, celebrated among Renaissance architects as of Palladian design, but which would hardly attract the notice of the general observer, unless on account of the pictures by John Bellini which it contains, in order to see which the traveller may perhaps remember having been taken across the Giudecca to the church of the “Redentore.”
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 443Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904