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The note at Notebook M2 p.150 seems to have been written on 1st April; ‘yesterday’ referred to at Notebook M2 p.151 was Sunday 31st March, the day on which Ruskin read about the Gorham judgement, and the day on which he saw St Pierre in Avignon. The discussion of the Cathedral in Avignon follows the note on St. Pierre. Orange is some twenty miles north of Avignon on the road to Valence and Vienne. It seems reasonable to assume that Ruskin visited Orange after Avignon, but wrote the notes on Avignon later. Though an excursion to Orange while he was staying in Avignon is not impossible, it seems a more untidy hypothesis. The point is significant if it leads to the conclusion that in Ruskin was writing about Avignon from memory and from his notes in the Verona Book.
The arch at Orange is Roman and associated with Tiberius. Ruskin is at pains to distinguish it from the work of the Cinquecento. Comparisons are made with Byzantine and Lombard work.
See Notebook M2 p.178 for later reflections on the arch and ‘Proutism’ and Works, 9.299 for the use made of the note at Notebook M2 p.150.
Particular features noted at Notebook M2 p.150: reliefs and the relationship with Lombard style through the comparison with the work of Prout, for example the Pillar at Igel, figures and ornamentation; the foliage of the jamb side of the pilasters.
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