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Nos 116, 117. ST MARKS ATRIUM DOOR FRARI BELFRY DOOR
Door in St Marks, opens from the extremity of atrium into north transept
No 116 General view; the mosaic below is I believe an add-
tion at the time of the leaf plinth architrave. No 117
1 angel on[j] the right hand side as one looks at the door,
Note the hair sympathizing with the arabesque leaf roll:
2 Wing of angel with part of leaf ornament, note the
single plume suffled by the point of the leaf. 3 section
of archivilt. 4th one of the leaves of No 2 on the right
better drawn, showing the commencement of the incisions
which leave the ribs the great stalk being (semi) cylindri-
cal. 5 the leaf border a in figs 2 and 3; 6 section
of do, larger than in No 3: In working the vineleaves
of No 2 an incision is made on each side of the rib, to
the extremity of the leaf, and branched to each lobe. All
is worked down from the flat vide also next page.
Note The passage about Gothic in Maffei’s Verona is not far
Gothic from the beginning of the eleventh book. As Muffei denies
that even the Lombards did anything, it is worth consultin
That German artists worked in after times there is of
course no question.
No 18. (B) Belfry door opening out of the left hand North? Aisle
of the Frari door some steps, at A the archivolt, the
other sections a b, c d., at a2 b2 c2 d2.
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