[M.204L]                                                              [M.204]
N. B.  Not now 14 w but 90 l fragment cut out & mezzo-                No 170	St Marks. Façade.	204
tinted.                                                               
                                                                      		Capitals at p 14 w St M.  Their general profile is
                                                                      		a very beautiful conic section;  fig 3: and this is exhibited
                                                                      		on their edges by the keel like ridge left by their cutting away
                                                                      		as seen in section fig 2 and profile fig 4  which gives
                                                                      		the ornament on the internal angle. The stones have
                                                                      		however four sometimes instead of eight rays.
                                                                      		I never saw so subtle a combination of concave, and
                                                                      		convex, and right lines
                                                                      		The leaf patterns are all cut hollow only supported
                                                                      		by irregular props, as seen in section fig 2.  They
                                                                      		are varied in every capital.
                                                                      No 170		Detached Shaft, with lily head, in piazzetta de' Lioni
                                                                      Corner		Vid notes at p 197.
                                                                      capital		It has the loveliest section I ever saw, carefully given on
                                                                      		No 170 more especially its lovely inner line;  which I only
                                                                      		saw by the accident of its lower basket work being all
                                                                      		broken away:  and it is indeed only formed by the  chisel
                                                                      		within side of the bracket, by a kind of instinct - and
                                                                      		it is of no use, except like a kind of fine under anatomy
                                                                      		ruling the outside lines:  but when these are gone, it is left
                                                                      		- not so smooth as I have drawn it, for the chisel works
                                                                      		roughly in the dark - but quite as beautiful in main contact

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