[No.39] [RL 1636 box]

[vertical orientation]

[diagram]	These are five detached and two
		attached pillars : of the detached
		3 red and two white alternately
		on the right & two  red & three
		white alternately on the left.
		All the capitals have been painted
		green or blue ground with their
		fillets & leaves of gold.
		The Red capitals are the Lombard
		(Danieli) ones exactly in main plan.
		But the falling angle leaves are longer
		flatter, & more [vilely?] divided and
			more
		fall in a lambent way over the bell
		and there is a sharp marked ridge
					 below
		in the middle of the leaf. over
		which the lambent tp is ridged
		like a sail bent by wind against
		a rope. This section of the leaf
		at its base is               [diagram]
	The fillet is narrower in
	proportion to the leaf. & far less
	skilfully tapered: The abacus lines
	are meagre and bad; and the [line ends?]
far too small & numerous. running in some capitals to 21 & 22 on a side - the
bell of the capital is of a hard & forced curve. i.e [diagram], or nearly w. instead of [diagram]
and the whole thing strikes one as more rude and earlier, though more elaborate
than Danielis. The dentils above are gilded & their intervals painted green or blue. dark.
and stings of gold are run upon the mouldings in the black spaces of the section
in which lower note that fig. 4 b is . much more accurate. if itts roll were a little further
                      great
forward and its cavetto shallower.

The leaf at the red base is very curious & wavy: it has no rib: and just
springs from the upper edge of the roll in a faint line. q rising at as it falls.
Vid fig 1. A. & B. No 30. Its measures at the level f. fig 1. are: Root
of leaf. round, 11 ¼  inches. & internal 10 ¼   9. do the leaves get larger as
they are later: The leaf off the white base differs from this only in having its extremity
worked into a small fillet spiral. fig 2: it is more ridged. though not ribbed. and
its measures are 1  “ ¾ . internal and 8 ¾  rest of leaf. . The circumference
of shafts is from 5  “  2. to 5  “  4. . It is curious that the first white
column on left has the Danieli Capital. all the others leaves. which however
-	flat, meagre. and ugly: quite undeveloped in carving. while yet they are round ended
and have lost all the Byzantine sharpness & character. The ornament between the
leaves in the Danieli one is sometimes a four leaved open rose, like Doges palace.
but ruder: and sometimes a closed bud. point forward, like [Roses?] of Verona.

					No 39. Details. St Stefano. Interior

[Version 0.05: May 2008]