Lily Capital of the Northern Portico of St Marks

On the ‘lily capital’ of the Northern Portico there are notes at Notebook M p.197; Notebook M p.204; St M[arks] Book p.56L; Sheet No. 134; and Sheet No. 170.

There are references to the lily capital in Stones of Venice as follows:

Plate 15 facing Works, 9.360: Cornice Profiles (fig 14) with a figure derived from the drawing on Sheet No. 170;

Plate 16 facing Works, 9.365. (a) Cornice Decoration, ‘Capital of St Mark’s’ which shows a development of the small decorative detail drawn at the top left of Sheet No. 170;

Works, 9.386-7;

Plate 9 facing Works, 10.163;

Plate 10 facing Works, 10.164 - The Four Venetian Flower-Orders (figs 3 b and c);

Works, 10.282-283 on the use of the lily;

Plate 7, Works, 11.332.

For an image of the lily and basketwork capitals of the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, cited by Lindsay (1847) vol.I p.64 as ‘characteristic’ of Byzantine Style, see here.

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