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[M.152L] [M.152] St Marks. Atrium door. 152
Get, for spirit of 12th century and architectural papers, the
Foreign quarterly for January & April 1831.
Capitals & Friezes. I saw in St Marks today, the entire derivation of
the Byzantine from the Corinthian capital: From the Byzantine
comes the leaf frieze: directly; the cornices of Murano - St Marks
and Dandolo’s house are nothing but the leaves of a Byzantine
imitation Corinthian unrolled and laid along. Now to show
this properly I must draw one of the St Marks capitals in its
foliage part; thoroughly, (with the steps) Then, the capitals
gradually become Lombardic, and the plinths take the rose,
and become luxuriant: and when they have become rich, they
are again twined round the capital and form the luxuriant
Venetian, as the other formed the Corinthian: Thus in Venice
nothing can be more simple than the derivation of their Gothic
- whatever it may be in the north. The roll moulding in the door
Door in St Marks described on last page, No 116, is valuable as giving one
Leaf the cases in which the Byzantine forked leaf is becoming the
Mouldings mediaeval pointed lobed leaf: the change in the style is of
the period when the failure in its masonry took place. The
two original joints are seen in No 116 the three figures and the
leaf work on both sides being all in three huge blocks,
with sharp diagonal joints It would evidently be impossible
to build the arch more strongly, if the stone could not be fractured.
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