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                                                                      	            ST MARKS  DOORS AND PULPIT
                                                                      St Marks.	The red plinth forms also the foundation of the whole
                                                                      	Interior wall, forming the seats when I have often been
                                                                      so happy, and between the seat and the wall there is a
                                                                      small five or six inch high white marble plinth which is
	With the panel mouldings of Pal Fasetti &c conf. St Marks            the baptistery is of section a b p 49 1 door book:  The
on angles outside and an angle of pilaster in baptistery              red panel section there shown below.
beside the pillar g in great plan; is one of red marble,              I am utterly puzzled in St Marks by the richness of the
some six or seven niches wide of which the section at                 panel mouldings.  See no 140 are several examples from
p 48 1 door book and end of fluting p 48   note pointed               Torcello 1	the northern pulpit, one one, x y of a door jamb, as I
arch, and leaf springing out of floating and lapping over.            presume contemporary with the Arabic door above it
Another red panel of the Fascetti section occurs                      which seems to connect itself with the jamb of the great
in a tomb at Torcello in the north aisle, with a round                nort[h]hern entrance door, on No    this again
arched canopy having a rudely painted date 1215.                          	is the type of the earlier 3rd windows of ducal palace,
                                                                      nor are the pulpit mouldings of No 140 in their rich
                                                                      unctuous flow (partly aided by the smoothness of the
                                                                      long worn and wasted alabaster) unlike many of the square
                                                                      doors which I have fancies late:  q whether now I should
                                                                      not group them with the early houses in which, so far as
                                                                      I remember, they always occur.
                                                                      	 I was thrown off the scent by the door of Monza
                                                                      which is certainly late - and of s[d]ame family.
                                                                      	On No 140 also are some curious bases correspondent with
                                                                      those of Torcello, and transitional.  Thus B is a Torcello

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