South Portico

Works, 11.330 and Plate 6 facing Works, 11.330 illustrate Ruskin’s impression of the South Portico as it was when he saw it.

On the rebuilding of the portico see Works, 24.lx; Works, 24.417.

At Works, 9.245 it is the most beautiful example of the superimposition of the Byzantine and Pisan Romanesque.

Works, 9.383 and Plate 18 facing Works, 9.383 - images of capitals.

In the separate sheets headed St. Mark’s at the beginning of M under the heading South Portico Ruskin refers to Notebook M p.180, with a reference to a ‘map’ which suggests that he also has in mind Notebook M p.180L; Notebook M p.201; Notebook M p.202, which includes Notebook M p.202L which has another version of the ‘map’; Notebook M p.203; St M[arks] Book p.18; St M[arks] Book p.19; ‘with text at’ St M[arks] Book p.22.

In these sheets Ruskin refers to Notebook M p.180; St M[arks] Book p.2; St M[arks] Book p.3 for ‘manners of’ shafts A and B (as defined in map at Notebook M p.180L).

For Shaft A. and its five shafts on top and bases Ruskin cites in the same sheets: Notebook M p.202 and Notebook M p.203, both headed ‘Southern Portico’; and St M[arks] Book p.17.

He cites for Shaft B: Notebook M p.202; St M[arks] Book p.5; St M[arks] Book p.16.

For the location of Shafts A and B see the ‘map’ at Notebook M p.180L. See also Sheet No. 129.

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