Architecture Through Time in Venice

Marcus Vizzutti, Andy Zhou, Emma Morris, Catharine Killien

Part I: Byzantine Illustrations - Resemblance to St. Mark's Basilica

Incrustation: the purest example in Italy of architecture in which the ruling principle is the incrustation of brick with more precious materials...

The incrustation shown is the valuable
marble square placed into the side of this building

Moldings: The second most important feature to buildings that resemble the Byzantine architecture of St. Mark's...

The moldings are apparent across the top of each arch

The two great orders of column capitals in the world are concave, the longest lived with its use extended into the Gothic times, and the convex.
Concave capital...Convex capital...

The peacock is a well-known symbol of the resurrection in the Byzantine style...



Part II: Gothic Illustrations - Resemblance to the Venetian Ducal Palace

The second order window of the Palace became an example for architecture of the period. There is hardly a street in Venice which does not exhibit some important remains of the palace with this form of window...

A second order window is characterized by the rounded arch on
the underside while the upper part comes to a point

A row of third order windows, mimicked after the palace...

The third order windows are characterized by the additional point
on the underside of the arch added to the second order

A fourth order window resembling those on the palace...

Fourth order windows are characterized by their unique shape
created by the additional points added to the sides of the arch

An example of a Gothic building with the finest parts of the Ducal Palace...


Venetian Dentil: A piece of stone projecting from an arch, resembling teeth, and a style that crosses from Byzantine to Gothic...


Part III: Renaissance Illustrations - Resemblance to the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

Palaces in Renaissance time are characterized by an ornamentation closely related to those of the Byzantine, namely groups of colored marble circles...



The numbness of Renaissance architecture prevailed over painting and the exteriors of Renaissance palaces were built out of stone, ending the era of painted, colorful buildings..
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Renaissance architecture became "gross, barbarous, childish" according to John Ruskin because of its basic, dull nature...

Ruskin would consider this Renaissance palazzo “gross…barbarous...[and] servile in plagiarism” because of the extreme symmetry of the façade that gives the architecture a mass-produced feeling and does not reflect the hand of the individual craftsman as Ruskin’s preferred Gothic style does.