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                                                                      ST MARKS  BYZANTINE DOOR to ATRIKUM
                                                                      		Byzantine workmen executed all the most delicate and
		Details of this door at p 60 Gothic book.  1 Ornament               finished capitals, and these beautiful angels:  They
filling the interstice of the left hand angels left wing              are not well cut - the folds of the dresses are mere
above:  the right wing is given at p 62.   2. leaf                    incisions:  and the features hard and bad, but the grace
moulding, hollow ornament and section, springing from the             of position and conception perfect.  Note especially the f
lentil on the right:  In all these hollow ornaments there             flow of the hair, graceful though formal sympathising so
is no real undercutting.  It is cut deep down,and then                entirely with the flowing roll of leafage which surrounds
celeverly set drill holes give it its point:  both                    their capitals or, as here, the arch:  and which is
in the leaf and the tendril, as marked at p 60.   (x)                 finally expanded into the beautiful rolls of the Doge’s
Observe again, the forked leaf, peculiarly  Byzantine.                palace.
3.  Turn of the angle on the right of arch, leaves added              The plinth or flower cornice which forms the architrave
in the 14th century, at the time of the architrace;  ob-              of this door is precisely the same as that of Peter
serve their different lobe     instead of    (x)  This is             Cornau p 44 Gothic book, only the rose instead of being
true only of the leaf roll, the tendrils are boldly under-            left plain, is vut into reverted leaves.  p 44 1 c.
cut vide below p 153.                                                 Is it possible that the Cornices rose may be unifnished?
                                                                      Vid. p 151, 152.
                                                                      Italian tracery:  My first point must be to explain the differences
                                                                      between the adjusted tracery of the north;  and the
                                                                      cut out tracery of the P. della Cata, Now I imagine that
                                                                      the earlier Italian tracings are fitted to the arch: as
                                                                      in St J and Paul, in the Frari, San Stefano &c - But in
                                                                      Foscari  Mad dell Orto Transept of St J and Paul - etc
                                                                      we have the portion cut out of a supposed continuous
                                                                      range.  Oppose to this system the contrary workmanship
                                                                      awkwardness of oblique circles in St Ouen &c.

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