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ST MARKS NICHES.
to me about the time and workmanship of the two best angle
of the doge’s palace - stones of south east and south
west angles. it has finely chiselled features in repose,
and a hairy demon under its feet, which however is very
weak and poor, another instance of failure in grotesque.
Venetian GothicThis beautiful niches may be given as a central type of
Ventian 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 den-
til, instead of merely touching the side of a block: the
turning of the angle is only instead of
the arch is less pointed, and the cavette of its section
much deeper, All these northern niches have beautiful
figures - quiet severe and 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 o
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