[M.200L]                                                              [M.200]
                                                                      No 142, 143, 155, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 167	St Marks. Screen.	200
                                                                      
                                                                      		stiff and less graceful: it has finished smooth mouldings and statues
                                                                      		above in finish & classicalism far in advance of the Judgment
                                                                      		of Solomon at the Carta angle:  and all this with infallible date
                                                                      		1384.  Its capitals if not gilded would be wonderful.  They
                                                                      		are crisp, fanciful - finished - cut clear in most daring, but
                                                                      		in effective ways, and all different, but they are bad in
                                                                      		composition and effect.  Not more luxuriant but cramped
                                                                      		and ungraceful.
                                                                      		The same screen is carried - further back across the dark
                                                                      		choir aisles - and attached to it is a little balustrade whose
                                                                      		date would be invaluable to me, facing that of Ducal
                                                                      		palace balcony.  No 142 gives from A to B the real height
                                                                      		of one of its panels at D section of panel bar, at E
                                                                      		the tracery bar, showing depth of the inlaid black marble the
                                                                      		panelling being red, which describes the foils.  all these real
                                                                      		size.  G. the plinth on top of all reduced, while No 143
                                                                      		was actually traced on the sharp ridge of the tracery bars.

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