Venetian traceries

Ruskin does not write a chapter titled ‘traceries’. Volume 1 Chapter 17 discusses the ‘Filling of windows’. Tracery is generally discussed in relation to specific buildings. His examination of traceries within the notebooks is widespread. See for example Notebook M2 p.55; Notebook M2 p.80, St M[arks] Book p.73; St M[arks] Book p.75L; Bit Book p.72; Gothic Book p.24; Gothic Book p.45; Gothic Book p.53.

At Notebook M2 p.198L Ruskin notes: ‘Traceries generally, 55, 80, St M 75L,73 Bit 72 Goth 24 53 H₁ 43 H² 94, 43, 51, 54, Ver 19 Palace 60 Door 39 N 14 17 18 40 54L 55 58 Quat. Foil Goth 68, H₁ 13, 14, H² 20 30 48 58 59’

Many Sheets are concerned with traceries, for example the following on the Ducal Palace:

• No.66 Ducal Palace (Traceries)
• No.67 Ducal Palace (Traceries) RF 1642 p.43, (album) (part)
• No.68A Ducal Palace (Traceries)
• No.68B Ducal Palace (Traceries) 3rd window RF 1642 p.9, (album)
• No.68C Ducal Palace (Traceries) 3rd window RL 1636 box
• No.68D Ducal Palace (Traceries) (tracing)
• No.68E Ducal Palace (Traceries) ‘cusp of great foils’
• No.68F Ducal Palace (Traceries) RF 1642 p.8 (album)
• No.68G Ducal Palace (Traceries) (‘leaf angle’) RF 1642 p.39
• No.68H Ducal Palace (Traceries) (‘Meetings of Great Roll’)
• No.68 I Ducal Palace (Traceries) (‘joins 68H’)
• No.68K Ducal Palace (Traceries) (‘cusp of main lower arch’)
• No.68L Ducal Palace (Traceries) (‘joins 68K’)
• No.68M Ducal Palace (Traceries) Cusp of Second Window RL 1636 box
• No.68N Ducal Palace (Traceries) (‘duplicate of Fig 2 68M’) RL 1636 box
• No.68P Ducal Palace (Traceries) (‘lines of the upper four foil’) RL 1636 box

See also Ducal Palace Windows with traceries.

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