Charles Amos Cummings was a nineteenth-century American architect and architectural historian who worked primarily in the Venetian Gothic style. Cummings followed the precepts of British cultural theorist and architectural critic John Ruskin (1819–1900). Cummings help to found the Boston Society of Architects in 1867.
Charles Amos Cummings
Lantern and exterior chancel wall at Old South Church in Boston.
The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Venetian Gothic architecture
Venetian Gothic is the particular form of Italian Gothic architecture typical of Venice, originating in local building requirements, with some influence from Byzantine architecture, and some from Islamic architecture, reflecting Venice's trading network. Very unusually for medieval architecture, the style is at its most characteristic in secular buildings, with the great majority of surviving examples of the style being secular.
Gothic arches adorn the Doge's Palace, Venice. Mostly 14th century.
Ca' d'Oro on the Grand Canal, 1428–30.
Palazzo Pesaro Orfei, 15th century.
The Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti on the Grand Canal; the 15th-century window style of the facade was extended to the sides in the 19th century.
