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
- Plate section
4 - DATE OF THE DUOMO OF TORCELLO
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
The first flight to the lagoons for shelter was caused by the invasion of Attila in the fifth century, so that in endeavouring to throw back the thought of the reader to the former solitude of the islands, I spoke of them as they must have appeared “1300 years ago.” Altinum, however, was not finally destroyed till the Lombard invasion in 641, when the episcopal seat was removed to Torcello, and the inhabitants of the mainland city, giving up all hope of returning to their former homes, built their Duomo there. It is a disputed point among Venetian antiquarians, whether the present church be that which was built in the seventh century, partially restored in 1008, or whether the words of Sagornino, “ecclesiam jam vetustate consumptam recreare,” justify them in assuming an entire rebuilding of the fabric.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 444 - 445Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904