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184 back of 148 185 149
PONTE DELLA CORONA HOUSE AT ST MARKS.
The capitals are of same section as No 91 The abacus
perhaps a little less sweeping and Greek: the leaves
MEASURES OF PAL FASCETTI p 142 above are excessively rich and of legitimate plan; the lower
The horizontal level above which the heights were set with their ribs outside in a proper way, and the flower
taken was a new plinth about an inch higher than the band a delicate rose and leaf.
bottom of the old base, which was confused by balcony. The whole is in sq d. of which x and y produced, p 58
Height of top of soffit arch 14 " 14 from the half dentil.
--- --- --- --- abacus 11 " 11 House at ponte della corona: One of its doors drawn p 44 H2
--- --- --- --- shaft 9 " 10 to under the roll when the is of brick, and opens on the bridge; following the alley
joint is past the house a correspondent door is found at
--- --- --- --- pure shaft without base 9 " 4 A singularly the other side of the same plan precisely as that at
long shaft for its breadth p 44 - but of a flatter arch, as opp A: and of the
Circum of shaft at its base 1 " 5½ curious section B. with gabled dentil. Still more curious
--- --- --- --- six feet up 1 " 4 ly this opposide door has its correspondent tier of windows
Diameter of pilaster behind 1 " 1¾ as opposite C. but with a sec instead of a2: the one to
Interval between arch shafts 4 " 1 the left largest 3 C or transition Ap pils and two pure
The character of the pilaster exactly equals that of L. shafts now built up all but one side.
the two shafts and their interval: Add about 2 inches for the Door in St Marks No 116. As I was working on this to-day I was struck
space x y: p 53, and we have 4 " 1 - " 4 - 3 " 9 for span of by the amazing refinement of the Byzantine wo kmanship.
arch, and we have 14 " 4 - 11 " 11 or 2 " 5 only for its I have been at a loss for a criterion of it, but I have
height. little doubt[e] now that all the barbarous bird
friezes and stu[f]ff which have so puzzled me, and the
toudi which are every where built in,are Aquileian; and
the
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