[M.199L]                                                              [M.199]
                                                                      No 141	St Marks. South Transept Shafts	199
                                                                      
                                                                      Bases		base A: a companion column transitional both rude:
The upper roll of this curious house is cabled                        St		while opposite (in south transept:  A B & C are marked in
                                                                      Marks		red by same letters in plan)  C has a very artistical
                                                                      		and finished profile, at C2 No 140 and the leaf remarkable
                                                                      		for its straight line at starting from roll (in plan, at C)
                                                                      		and for its merely incised outline - no rib - no decoration
                                                                      		no ridge of any mind, and edges vertical.  (Compare its
                                                                      		depressed point with the high lift of the extremity in
                                                                      		the post office palazzo Cavalli and with another base,
                                                                      		that of g in the Baptistery, red in great plan:  where this
                                                                      Bases.		raised end is an angel’s head, who plunges down from
                                                                      comp		the roll like Dante’s fiend - il petto in suso, while his
                                                                      p 80		wings flow back & up, and an early sharp lobed
                                                                      M2		leaf is inserted between them) while, finally the
                                                                      		base of pillar D in great plan is that of C its leaf uncloven
                                                                      		& perfectly plain.
                                                                      		On no 141 are two as curious plans of bases as I have
                                                                      		seen.  The central one is falsely made hexagon in {engraved} plan.
                                                                      		In fig 1 construct the pentagon by measure then inscribe
                                                                      		circle, and use profile A No angle leaves.
                                                                      The great screen of St Marks is an invaluable piece of evidence:  It
                                                                      Screen		 has bracket mouldings, and exactly the nail head & leaf decoration
                                                                      		of the house No 88 p 57 house book 2 only perhaps a little more

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