II. DOORWAYS 10. FINAL APPENDIX 269

the grand early manner. The mouldings of these various doors will be noticed under the head “Archivolt.”

Now, throughout the city we find a number of doors resembling the square doors of St. Mark, and occurring with rare exceptions either in buildings of the Byzantine period, or imbedded in restored houses; never in a single instance forming a connected portion of any late building; and they therefore furnish a most important piece of evidence, wherever they are part of the original structure of a Gothic building, that such building is one of the advanced guards of the Gothic school, and belongs to its earliest period.

On Plate 6, opposite, are assembled all the important examples I could find in Venice of these mouldings. The reader will see at a glance their peculiar character, and unmistakable likeness to each other. The following are the references:

1. Door in Calle Mocenigo.

2. Angle of tomb of Dogaressa Vital Michele.

3. Door in Sotto Portico, St. Apollonia (near Ponte di Canonica).

4. Door in Calle della Verona (another like it is close by).

5. Angle of Tomb of Doge Marino Morosini.

6, 7. Door in Calle Mocenigo.

8. Door in Campo S. Margherita.

PLATE 6, 9. Door at Traghetto San Samuele, on south side of Grand Canal.

Vol. III.10. Door at Ponte St. Toma.

11. Great door of Church of Servi.

12. In Calle della Chiesa, Campo San Filippo e Giacomo.

13. Door of house in Calle di Rimedio (page 295, Vol. II.)

14. Door in Fonaco de’ Turchi.

15. Door in Fondamenta Malcanton, near Campo S. Margherita.

16. Door in south side of Canna Reggio.

17, 18. Doors in Sotto Portico dei Squellini.

The principal points to be noted in these mouldings are their curious differences of level, as marked by the dotted lines, more especially in 14, 15, 16, and the systematic projection of the outer or lower mouldings in 16, 17, 18. Then, as points of evidence, observe that 1 is the jamb and 6 the archivolt (7 the angle on a larger scale) of the brick door given in my folio work from Ramo di rimpetto Mocenigo, one of the evidences of the early date of that door; 8 is the jamb of the door in Campo Santa Margherita (also given in my folio work),¹ fixing the early date of that also; 10 is from a Gothic door opening off the Ponte St. Toma; and 11 is also from a Gothic building. All the rest are from Byzantine work, or from ruins. The angle of the tomb of Marino Morosini (5) is given for comparison only.

The doors with the mouldings 17, 18, are from the two ends of a small dark passage, called the Sotto Portico dei Squellini, opening near Ponte Cappello, on the Rio Marin: 14 is the outside one, arranged as usual, and at a, in the rough stone, are places for the staples of the door valve; 15, at the other end of the passage, opening into the little Corte dei Squellini, is set with the part a outwards, it also having places for hinges; but it is curious that the rich moulding should be set in towards the dark passage, though natural that the doors should both open one way.

¹ [See below, Plates 11 and 12 of the Examples.]

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