 |
 |
 |
Notebook M p.124. ‘House No 77 grotesque of pilaster: its effect is not that intended by sculptor - the whites should all be darker and it would then be much poorer, but the scales of it are very clever: the man must have been a kind of Agaaiez and the fins at the gill radiates like La Scala crests and Titian's wing. Note this gill goes into a hollow in the stone, the head being for the rest, - cut flat by incisions into the square base of the spiral chamfer’
|
|
|
[Version 0.05: May 2008]