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[M.199L] [M.199]
No 141 St Marks. South Transept Shafts 199
Bases base A: a companion column transitional both rude:
The upper roll of this curious house is cabled St while opposite (in south transept: A B & C are marked in
Marks red by same letters in plan) C has a very artistical
and finished profile, at C2 No 140 and the leaf remarkable
for its straight line at starting from roll (in plan, at C)
and for its merely incised outline - no rib - no decoration
no ridge of any mind, and edges vertical. (Compare its
depressed point with the high lift of the extremity in
the post office palazzo Cavalli and with another base,
that of g in the Baptistery, red in great plan: where this
Bases. raised end is an angel’s head, who plunges down from
comp the roll like Dante’s fiend - il petto in suso, while his
p 80 wings flow back & up, and an early sharp lobed
M2 leaf is inserted between them) while, finally the
base of pillar D in great plan is that of C its leaf uncloven
& perfectly plain.
On no 141 are two as curious plans of bases as I have
seen. The central one is falsely made hexagon in {engraved} plan.
In fig 1 construct the pentagon by measure then inscribe
circle, and use profile A No angle leaves.
The great screen of St Marks is an invaluable piece of evidence: It
Screen has bracket mouldings, and exactly the nail head & leaf decoration
of the house No 88 p 57 house book 2 only perhaps a little more
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