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[M.117L] [M.117] Bacon palace 117
Bases. I am thoroughly at fault about their bases: the onlyoctagonal
without leaves that I have come across - more so still about
the capitals - whose section (inside the bell & outside line the flowers)
is rudely given in fig 2 same page: They are likest in style &
a [diagram] flow to the best one of the Doge palace 3rd order, but
infinitely more masculine - all in red marble - all the leaves
springing from root & touching abacus with their point
- very few rolling waves of the bell in each - I think
no ribs: they are kept light in effect by the absence of
all ponderous projection: and then made sublime by the
simplicity of their flow - set off by the autumnal glow and
smooth sea-like surface of their marble: I think they
are the finest capitals - for pure surface work: and for
an effect of sublimity with richness & grace, I have ever
seen.
The windows on these pillars are not less remarkable - their
contour is seen in Dag: but observe the character of
heir transition: They would almost be pure 5th were
it not that instead of their lower joint being purely
segmental of circle, as a opp: it begins to turn at
the end in sympathy with the ogee. Explain this
in my first chapter on 5th order. These windows are
all worked with c section in the proportion given at
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