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No 141 ST MARKS SOUTH TRANSEPT SHAFTS
Bases St Marks. base A: a companion column transitional both rude;
while opposite (in south transept: A B & C are marked
in 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 standing from roll (in plan at C.)
and for its merely incised outline - no rib - no decora-
tion no ridge of any mind, and edges vertical) Compare
its depressed point with the high lift of the extremity
in the post office palazzo Cavelli and with another base
that of g in the Baptistery, red in great plan; where
this raised end is an angel’s head, who plunges down
The upper roll of thus curious house is cabled from the roll like Dante’s friend - il fetto in suso, while
his wings flow back and up, and ar early sharp lobed
leaf is inserted between them) while, finally the
base of pillar D in great plan is that of C its leaf
uncloven and perfectly plain.
On no 141 are two as curious plans of bases and 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
Screen evidence; I[S]t has bracket mouldings, and exactly the
nail head and leaf decoration of the house No 88 p 57
house book 2 only perhaps a little more
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