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                                                                      	     No 141  ST MARKS  SOUTH TRANSEPT SHAFTS
                                                                      Bases St Marks. base A: a companion column transitional both rude;
                                                                      while opposite (in south transept:  A B & C are marked
                                                                      in red by same letters in plan)  C has a very artistical
                                                                      and finished profile, at C2 No 140 and the leaf remarkable
                                                                      for its straight line at standing from roll (in plan at C.)
                                                                      and for its merely incised outline - no rib - no decora-
                                                                      tion no ridge of any mind, and edges vertical)  Compare
                                                                      its depressed point with the high lift of the extremity
                                                                      in the post office palazzo Cavelli and with another base
                                                                      that of g in the Baptistery, red in great plan;  where
                                                                      this raised end is an angel’s head, who plunges down
	The upper roll of thus curious house is cabled                       	from the roll like Dante’s friend - il fetto in suso, while
                                                                      his wings flow back and up, and ar early sharp lobed
                                                                      leaf is inserted between them) while, finally the
                                                                      base of pillar D in great plan is that of C its leaf
                                                                      uncloven and perfectly plain.
                                                                      On no 141 are two as curious plans of bases and I have
                                                                      seen.  The central one is falsely made hexagon in
                                                                      engraved plan.  In fig 1 construct the pentagon by
                                                                      measure then inscribe circle, and use profile A No angle
                                                                      leaves.
                                                                      The great screen of St Marks is an invaluable piece of
                                                                      Screen	evidence;  I[S]t has bracket mouldings, and exactly the
                                                                      	nail head and leaf decoration of the house No 88 p 57
                                                                      house book 2 only perhaps a little more

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