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[M.166L] [M.166]
[diagram] No 122 123 Ducal palace. San Stefano. 166
sweet & full of animation. The chiselling of the head of Noah is
as hard as it is elaborate: every vein & wrinkle being sharpened
and multiplied to give the Proutish ornament of surface: and
the leaves exquisitely arranged and round ribbed though they
be, are stiff in their lobes and simple in plan: Above the
capital heads - though not of children - are heavy - smooth -
staring, dolls heads, without one ray of intelligence, or wrinkle
of delicate work, and the angel at the angle has the smooth
serene, thoroughly cut features and quiet large eye of the late
Gothic - not Bon exactly - more Porta San Stefano time -
No 122. shows the general effect of one of the leaf capitals: observe and still decidedly fine - while the leaves beneath it are, except where
the circle of the bell is quite pure: it only looks indented because a piece has been broken off over the canal, the best preserved
the shadow falls down upon it at the angles: its under shade in the palace, and perhaps the most lovely: having all the
should be true: The mode in which the capital is first cut quaintness of the earliest {plan} with the fluency and grace of later
will be understood from B. above. A pure bell -not so concave as work, and no curled lobes nor abacus.
this, with equal edge all round is put under this abacus: I have Church of San Stefano: p 66 Gothic book.
put it upside down for clearness, and the angles are occupied as Fig 1. Bell of one of the leaf capitals of interior, with measures
in the bases, by horizontal triangles: the edges are then foiled as Fig 2. Plan of {the} capital head under abacus: it is a pure
seen in No 123, which is one of the triangular leaf extremities circle as opposite, at A. and fig 2 is for measures of interval
Continued at p 176. of circle and side of lead. Fig 3, p 66 l Archivolt
on abacus.
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]