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[M.198L] [M.198] St Marks. Doors & Pulpit. 198
St Marks. The red {[?]} plinth forms also the foundation of the whole
With the panel mouldings of Pal Farsetti &c conf. St Marks Mouldings interior wall, forming the seats when I have often been
on angles outside and an angle of pilaster in baptistery. beside the Basic Plinth so happy, and between the seat and the wall there is
pillar g in great plan; is one of red marble, some six or seven second a small five or six inch high white marble plinth
inches wide of which the section at p 48 l door book and or upper which in the baptistery is of section a b p 49 l door
end of fluting p 48. note pointed arch, and leaf springing book: The red panel section there shown below.
out of floating & lapping over. I am utterly puzzled in St Marks by the richness of the
Another red panel of the Farsetti section occurs in a tomb panel mouldings. On no 140 are several examples from
at Torcello in the north aisle; with a round arched canopy (Torcello, l) the southern pulpit, one one, x y of a door jamb, as I
having a rudely painted date 1215. presume contemporary with the Arabic door above it
which seems to connect itself with the jamb of the
great northern entrance door, on No [gap]. this again
is the type of the earlier 3rd windows of ducal
Mouldings palace: nor are the pulpit mouldings of No 140 in
of St Marks their rich unctuous flow (partly aided by the smoothness
of the long worn & wasted alabaster) unlike many of
the square doors which I have fancied late: q: whether
now I should not group them with the early houses in
which, so far as I remember, they always occur.
I was thrown off the scent by the door of Monza
Bases, which is certainly late - and of same family.
of St Marks.
On No 140 also are some curious bases correspondent with
those of Torcello, and transitional. Thus B is a Torcello
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]