[M.61L] [M.61] Questions 61
Note: a pure English excavated dogtooth, round an arch Questions to be worked out.
close to San Giov & Paul, in abbey over bridge, and a curious 1. Dentil and dog tooth: When the Venetian dentil first
double dentiled cornice on a palace between Jesuiti and appears? How it is developed from the old [diagram]
Madonna dell’ Orto must be studied. : When the dog tooth plain first appears, & where:
Its placing upon capitals, and arches, and around niches
- q. first on balconies?
Note the brackets on niched door at p 59 l. 2nd.Crockets: If confined altogether to ecclesiastical work: ?
They occur always on the ogees plumily; find when
first - & trace development to San Stefano and St Marks.
3rd. Parapets: Their curves and foliations - as were
Fondaco di Tedeschi - on quay de' Schiavoni, &c.
associate this question with the wrong forms of church
ends peculiar to Venice.
4th. Capitals: Their simplification from Byzantine into Lombard:
The first appearance of the Rose pattern? The first
from the sharp, up leaf of my Second order,
to the Down, lambent leaf? The first Crumpling
of this down leaf into round ends; preparatory to last styles.
5th. Wells: Lombard & Crumple leaved.
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