DECORATION XXVII. CORNICE AND CAPITAL 375

suggestion of an interior surface of a different contour. But in the leaf cornices which follow, the decoration is represented as over-laid on one of the early profiles, and has another outside contour of its own; which is indeed the true profile of the cornice, but beneath which, more or less, the simpler profile is seen or suggested, which terminates all the incisions of the chisel. This under profile will often be found to be some condition of the type a or b, Fig. 64; and the leaf profile to be another ogee with its fullest curve up instead of down, lapping over the cornice edge above, so that the entire profile may be considered as made up of two ogee curves laid, like packed herrings, head to tail. Figures 8 and 9¹ of Plate 15 exemplify this arrangement. Fig. 7 is a heavier contour, doubtless composed in the same manner, but of which I had not marked the innermost profile, and which I have given here only to complete the series which, from 7 to 12 inclusive, exemplifies the gradual restriction of the leaf outline, from its boldest projection in the cornice to its most modest service in the capital. This change, however, is not one which indicates difference of age, merely of office and position: the cornice 7 is from the tomb of the Doge Andrea Dandolo (1350)² in St. Mark’s, 8 from a canopy over a door of about the same period, 9 from the tomb of the Dogaressa Agnese Venier (1411), 10 from that of Pietro Cornaro (1361),* and 11 from that of Andrea Morosini (1347), all in the church of San Giov. and Paolo, all these being cornice profiles; and, finally, 12 from a capital of the Ducal Palace, of fourteenth century work.

§ 29. Now the reader will doubtless notice that in the

* I have taken these dates roughly from Selvatico; their absolute accuracy to within a year or two, is here of no importance.

¹ [With Fig. 9 cf. Plate 4 in Examples of Venetian Architecture.]

² [The tomb of Andrea Dandolo is described in the next volume, ch. iv. § 16, and in Stones of Venice, vol. iii. ch. ii. § 61, while other details from it are illustrated above, ch. xxiii. § 4, p. 319, and in the next volume, ch. viii. § 40; he died in 1343, and the tomb was completed in 1354. For the tomb of Pietro (? Marco) Cornaro (reigned 1361-5), see above, p. 326 n.]

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