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188 152
ST MARKS ATRIUM DOOR
Get, for spir[t]it of 12th century, and architectual papers,
The Foreign quart[e]erly for January and April 1831.
Capitals and Friezes. I saw in St Marks to-day, the entire derivation of
the Byzantine from the Corinthian capital; From the By-
zantine 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
andlaid along. Now to show this properly I must draw
one of the St Marks capitals in its foliage part;
thoroughly, (wi[e]th 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 in St Marks, described on last page,
No 116 is valuable[l] as giving one the cases in which the
Byzantine forked leaf is becoming the 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[y] be fractured.
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