. The stones of Venice; introductory chapters and local indices (printed separately) for the use of travellers while staying in Venice and Verona . times ; but observe, in this, that theupper roll is larger than the lower. This is never the case inlate Gothic, where the proportion is always as in fig. that in Nos. 8 and 9 the upper rolls are at least aslarge as the lower, an important evidence of the dates of theCasa Farsetti and Fondaco de Turchi. Lastly: Note the peculiarly steep profile of No. 22. withreference to what is said of this base in Vol. H. Appendix 9. 228 THE STONES OF
. The stones of Venice; introductory chapters and local indices (printed separately) for the use of travellers while staying in Venice and Verona . times ; but observe, in this, that theupper roll is larger than the lower. This is never the case inlate Gothic, where the proportion is always as in fig. that in Nos. 8 and 9 the upper rolls are at least aslarge as the lower, an important evidence of the dates of theCasa Farsetti and Fondaco de Turchi. Lastly: Note the peculiarly steep profile of No. 22. withreference to what is said of this base in Vol. H. Appendix 9. 228 THE STONES OF VENICE. II. Doorways and Jambs. The entrances to St. Marks consist, as above mentioned, oigreat circular or ogee porches ; underneath which the realopen entrances, in which the valves of the bronze doors play,are square-headed. The mouldings of the jambsof these doors are highly curi-ous, and the most characteristicare therefore represented in oneview. The outsides of the jambsare lowest. a. Northern lateral door. b. First northern door of thefayade. c. Second door of the facade. d. Fourth door of the fajade. e. Central door of the Fig. I. APPENDIX. 229 I wish the reader especially to note the arbitrary characterof the curves and incisions; all evidently being drawn byhand, none being segments of circles, none like another, noneinfluenced by any visible law. I do not give these mouldingsas beautiful; they are, for the most part, very poor in effect^but they are singularly characteristic of the free work of thetime. The kind of door to which these mouldings belong, is shoTvn,with the other groups of doors, in Plate XTV. Vol. 11, fig. 6 Qh, Q c, Q d represent the gToups of doors in which theByzantine influence remained energetic, admitting slowly theforms of the pointed Gothic ; 7 a, with the gable above, is theintermediate group between the Byzantine and Gothic schools ;7 b, 7 c, 1 d, 7 e are the advance guards of the Gothic andLombardic invasions, representativ
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