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205 back of 164 206 165
No 122 123. DUCAL PALACE SAN STEFANO
sweet and full of animation. The chiselling of the head
of Noah is as hard as it is elaborate; every vein and
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 Stef-
fano time - and still decidedly fine - while the leaves
beneath it are, except where a piece has been broken off
over the canal, the best preserved in the palace, and
perhaps the most lovely, having all the quaintness of
the earliest, plan, with the fluency and grace of later
work, and no curled lobes nor abacus.
Church of San Sefano p 66 Gothic book.
Fig 1. Bell of one of the leaf capitals of interior, with
measures
No 122. shows the general effect of one of the leaf Fig 2. Plan of the capital head under abacus; it is a
capitals; observe the circle of the bell is quite pure circle as opposite, at A. and fig 2 is for measures
pure; it only looks indented because the shadow falls of interval of circle and side of lead. Fig 3, p 66 1
down upon it at the angles, its under shade should be true Archivolt on abacus.
The mode in[s] which the capital is first cut will be
understood from B. above. A pure fell -not so
concave as this, with equal edge all round is put under
this abacus, I have put it upside down for clearness,
and the angles are occupied as in the bases[,], by horizontal
triangles, the edges are then foiled as seen in No 123, wh
which is one of the triangular leaf extremities
Continued at p 176.
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