Sculptures, Figures & Ornaments
“Suppose a nation of builders, placed far from any quarries of available stone, and having precarious access to the mainland where they exist; compelled therefore either to build entirely with brick, or to import whatever stone they use from great distances,…ready sculptured, in order to save weight, and therefore, if the traffic of their merchants led them to places where there were ruins of ancient edifices, to ship the available fragments of them home. out of this supply of marble, partly composed of pieces of so precious a quality that only a few tons of them could be on any terms obtained, and partly of shafts, capitals, and other portions of foreign buildings, the island architect has to fashion, as best he may the anatomy of his edifice.”
- Quill, Sarah. Ruskins Venice: the stones revisited. Ashgate, 2000.
“a very un-lovely nightmare and a heterogeneous medley of monstrosities”
— John Unrau (on St Mark's)
Spolia of Internet
Collection foreign objects, Found objects, Scans of Statues, Figures & Ornaments.
Design : Amelia Marek (@ameliamarek)
Spectrum of Abstractions
