[M.198L]                                                              [M.198]	St Marks. Doors & Pulpit.	198
                                                                      
                                                                      St Marks.	The red {[?]} plinth forms also the foundation of the whole
With the panel mouldings of Pal Farsetti &c conf. St Marks            Mouldings	interior wall, forming the seats when I have often been
on angles outside and an angle of pilaster in baptistery.  beside the Basic Plinth	so happy, and between the seat and the wall there is
pillar g in great plan; is one of red marble, some six or seven       second		a small five or six inch high white marble plinth
inches wide of which the section at p 48 l door book and              or upper		which in the baptistery is of section a b p 49 l door
end of fluting p 48.  note pointed arch, and leaf springing           		book:  The red panel section there shown below.
out of floating & lapping over.                                       		I am utterly puzzled in St Marks by the richness of the
Another red panel of the Farsetti section occurs in a tomb            		panel mouldings.  On no 140 are several examples from
at Torcello in the north aisle; with a round arched canopy            (Torcello, l)	the southern pulpit, one one, x y of a door jamb, as I
having a rudely painted date 1215.                                    		presume contemporary with the Arabic door above it
                                                                      		which seems to connect itself with the jamb of the
                                                                      		great northern entrance door, on No [gap].  this again
                                                                      		is the type of the earlier 3rd windows of ducal
                                                                      Mouldings	palace: nor are the pulpit mouldings of No 140 in
                                                                      of St Marks	their rich unctuous flow (partly aided by the smoothness
                                                                      		of the long worn & wasted alabaster) unlike many of
                                                                      		the square doors which I have fancied late:  q: whether
                                                                      		now I should not group them with the early houses in
                                                                      		which, so far as I remember, they always occur.
                                                                      		I was thrown off the scent by the door of Monza
                                                                      Bases,		which is certainly late - and of same family.
                                                                      of St Marks.
                                                                      	On No 140 also are some curious bases correspondent with
                                                                      		those of Torcello, and transitional.  Thus B is a Torcello

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