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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 165

An illustration from The stones of Venice, 1851, leaf 165 — with thevoussoirs, yet by no meansbearing on them with per-fectly dead weight, but lock-ing itself together above them,and capable of being throwninto forms which relieve them,in some degree, from its pres-sure. § n. It is evident that if weare to place a continuous roofabove the line of arches,… … CONSTRUCTION. XH. THE AUCH LOAD. 147 the semicircle so as to obtain a level line of support. We mayfirst do this simply as , , .,, , . « Fig. XXXVI. at e>, with plain mass 01wall; so laying the roofon the top, which is themethod of the pure By-zantine and Italian Ro-manesque. But if we findtoo…

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