Basic plinth

Ruskin identifies four horizontal architectural features as ‘plinths’ on the western façade and sides of St Mark’s. The Basic Plinth; a second plinth just above it on which stand the lower storey columns; the Great Plinth between the upper and lower columns, a dominant wide band; and the Ice Plinth which surmounts the upper columns.

For the Basic Plinth see, the separate pages kept at the start of M. indicating discussion at M 189; Notebook M p.190; Notebook M p.196; Notebook M p.197 and Notebook M p.198L. Also St M[arks] Book p.22; St M[arks] Book p.29L; St M[arks] Book p.59L and Sheet No. 128.

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