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[M.149L] [M.149] Ponte della Corona. House at St Marks. 149
[diagrams] Tympanum The capitals are of same section as No 91 The abacus perhaps
bearing same a little less sweeping & Greek: the leaves are excessively rich
shield as the and of legitimate plan; the lower set with their ribs outside
other, but with in a proper way, and the flower band a delicate rose and
finer leaves leaf.
at angles The whole is in sq d. of which x and y produced,
p 58 form the half dentil.
[diagrams] House at ponte della corona: One of its doors drawn p 44 house H2
book is of brick, and opens on the bridge; following the
Measures of Pal. Farsetti p 142 above. alley past the house a correspondent door is found at
The horizontal level above which the heights were taken was a new plinth the other side of the same plan precisely as that at p 44
about an inch higher than the bottom of the old base, which was confused by balcony. - but of a flatter arch, as opp A: and of the curious section
Height of top of arch soffit 14 " 4 B. with gabled dentil. Still more curious ly this opposite
LINES abacus 11 " 11 door has its correspondent tier of windows as opposite C. but
LINES shaft 9 " 10 to under the roll when the joint is with a sec instead of a2: the one to the left largest
LINES pure shaft without base: 9 " 4 A singularly long shaft for 3 C or transition Ap pils and two pure L. shafts now
its breadth built up all but one side.
Circum of shaft at its base 1 " 5½ Door in St Marks No 116. As I was working on this today
LINES six feet up 1 " 4 Byzantine I was struck by the amazing refinement of the Byzantine
Diameter of pilaster behind 1 " 1¾ workmanship workmanship. I have been at a loss for a criterion of it,
Interval between arch shafts 4 " 1 but I have little doubt now that all the barbarous bird
The diameter of the pilaster exactly equals that of the two shafts & their friezes and stuff which have so puzzled me, and the toudi
interval: Add about 2 inches for the space x y: p 53, and we have which are everywhere built it in, are Aquileian; and the
4 " 1 in - " 4 in = 3 " 9 for span of arch, & we have 14 " 4 - 11 " 11 or 2 " 5 only
for its height.
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]