Basic Plinth

There are references to basic plinths (all, except where otherwise indicated, to the basic plinth of St Mark’s) at Notebook M p.26L (in relation to the Scala monuments at Verona), Notebook M pp.180L and 180, Notebook M p.189, Notebook M p.190, Notebook M p.196, Notebook M p.197, Notebook M p.198, Notebook M2 p.119L (the tomb above the gate at St Anastasia), Notebook M2 p.125L (San Zeno in Verona). On the basic plinth of St Mark’s, see also two letters of this period from Ruskin to Rawdon Brown.

Compare Works, 9.81 and following on the Wall Base and Works, 9.99 and following on the pier base.

For ‘basic plinth’ compare:

Works, 8.197 on the ‘characteristic forms of Romanesque’ in relation to Pisa;

Works, 10.295 in relation to Gothic Palaces in Venice with illustrations of basic-plinth profiles;

Works, 11.92 where the crowning plinth of the Francesco Dandolo tomb is distinguished from the basic plinth;

Works, 11.294 on the Soranzo tomb in St Marks;

Works, 11.298 on the Morosini tomb in SS Giovanni e Paolo;

Works, 11.299 in relation to the Giustiniani tomb in SS Giovanni e Paolo;

Works, 11.301 in relation to the Simon Dandolo tomb in the Frari;

Works, 11.303f in relation to the Cavalli tomb in the Frari;

Works, 11.328 in relation to figure 1 of Plate 5B the ‘basic plinth’ of the Ducal Palace.

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