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[M.213L] [M.213] St Marks. Niches 213
to me about the time and workmanship of the two best angels of
the Doges palace - stones of south east & south west angles.
it has finely chiselled features in repose, and a hairy demon
under its feet, which however is very weak & poor, another
instance of failure in grotesque. This beautiful niches may
Venetian Gothic be given as a central type of Venetian Gothic, equally
removed from Byzantine on the one side, from late florid
work on the other.
This niche is different from all the rest; but the others
separate from it by different degrees: the likest to it
are those next it on the north side of the church, as far
as the north west angle; but they show these following
differences. The arch dentil is run up at its apex into
one of the retreats of the cornice dentil, instead of merely
touching the side of a block: the turning of the angle is
only [diagram] instead of [diagram]. the arch is less pointed, and
the cavetto of its section much deeper, All these northern
niches have beautiful figures - quiet severe & grand - the
perfect type of what figures should be in external decoration -
no Byzantine formalism in them - yet no modern luxuriousness.
The capitals of these niches are all, more or less varied of
the Bacon palace kind.
Next to these niches may be classed those of the opposite or
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]