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[M.150L] [M.150] St Marks. Byzantine Door to Atrium 150
Details of this door at p 60 Gothic book. 1 Ornament filling
the interstice of the left hand angels left wing above: the right Byzantine workmen executed all the most delicate and finished
wing is given at p 62. 2. leaf moulding, hollow ornament capitals, and these beautiful angels: They are not well cut - the
and section, springing from the lintel on the right: In all folds of the dresses are mere incisions: and the features hard
these hollow ornaments there is no real undercutting. It is cut deep & bad, but the grace of position and conception perfect.
down,and then celeverly set drill holes give it its point: both Note especially the flow of the hair, graceful though formal sym-
in the leaf and the tendril. * as marked at p 60. Observe again, the forked leaf, peculiarly pathising so entirely with the flowing roll of leafage which
Byzantine. 3. Turn of the angle on the right of arch, leaves surrounds their capitals or, as here, the arch: and which
added in the 14th century, at the time of the architrave; observe is finally expanded into the beautiful rolls of the Doge’s
their different lobe [diagram] instead of [diagram] * This is true only of the palace.
leaf roll, the tendrils are boldly undercut. vide below p 153. The plinth or flower cornice which forms the architrave
of this door is precisely the same as that of Peter Cornaro
p 44 Gothic book, only the rose instead of being left plain
is cut into reverted leaves. p 44 l c. Is it possible
that the Cornaro rose may be unifnished? Vid. p 151, 152.
Italian tracery: My first point must be to explain the differences
between the adjusted tracery of the north; and the cut out
tracery of the P. della Carta, Now I imagine that the earlier
Italian tracings are fitted to the arch: as in St J & Paul,
in the Frari, San Stefano &c - But in Foscari, Mad dell
Orto - Transept of St J & Paul, &c we have the portion cut
out of a supposed continuous range. Oppose to this system
the contrary workmanship awkwardness of oblique circles in St Ouen &c.
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]