[24] Selvatico, “Architettura di Venezia,” p. 147.

[25] Selvatico, p. 221.

[26] The older work is of Istrian stone also, but of different quality.

[27] [Appendix 12], “Romanist Modern Art.”


CHAPTER II.

THE VIRTUES OF ARCHITECTURE.

§ I. We address ourselves, then, first to the task of determining some law of right which we may apply to the architecture of all the world and of all time; and by help of which, and judgment according to which, we may easily pronounce whether a building is good or noble, as, by applying a plumb-line, whether it be perpendicular.

The first question will of course be: What are the possible Virtues of architecture?