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                                                                      ST MARKS  ATRIUM DOOR
                                                                      		Get, for spir[t]it of 12th century, and architectual papers,
                                                                      		The Foreign quart[e]erly for January and April 1831.
                                                                      Capitals and Friezes.  I saw in St Marks to-day, the entire derivation of
                                                                      the Byzantine from the Corinthian capital;  From the By-
                                                                      zantine comes the leaf frieze, directly;  the cornices of
                                                                      Murano - St Marks and Dandolo’s house are nothing but
                                                                      the leaves of a Byzantine imitation Corinthian unrolled
                                                                      andlaid along.  Now to show this properly I must draw
                                                                      one of the St Marks capitals in its foliage part;
                                                                      thoroughly, (wi[e]th the steps)  Then, the capitals gradually
                                                                      		become Lombardic, and the plinths take the rose, and
                                                                      become luxuriant, and when they have become rich, they
                                                                      are again twined round the capital and form the luxuriant
                                                                      Venetian as the other formed the Corinthian:  Thus in
                                                                      Venice nothing can be more simple than the derivation of
                                                                      their Gothic - whatever it may be in the north.  The roll
                                                                      		moulding in the door in St Marks, described on last page,
                                                                      No 116 is  valuable[l] as giving one the cases in which the
                                                                      Byzantine forked leaf is becoming the mediaeval pointed
                                                                      		lobed leaf;  the change in the style is of the period
                                                                      when the failure in its masonry took place.  The two
                                                                      original joints are seen in No 116 the three figures
                                                                      and the leaf work on both sides being all in three, huge
                                                                      blocks, with sharp diagonal joints, it would evidently
                                                                      be impossible to build the arch more strongly, if the stone
                                                                       could not[y] be fractured.
                                                                      
                                                                      

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