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Lily capital, North West Portico ‘No 170 Detached Shaft, with lily head, in piazzetta de Lioni Corner capital Vid notes at p 197. It has the lovelies section I ever saw, carefully given on No 170 more especially its lovely inner line; which I only saw by the accident of its lower basket work being all broken away; and it is indeed only formed by the chisel within side of the bracket, by a kind of instinct and it is of no use, except like a kind of fine under anatomy. ruling the outside lines: but when these are gone, it is left - not so smooth as I have drawn it, for the chisel work roughly in the dark - but quite as beautiful in main contact’. Notebook M p.204.
Works, 9.360 (facing) Plate 15. Cornice Profiles (fig 14) The fig derived from the drawing on Sheet 170.
Works, 9.365 (facing). Plate 16. (a) Cornice Decoration, ‘Capital of St Mark’s’ Shows a development of the small decorative detail drawn at the top left of Sheet No. 170.
Works, 10.163 (facing). Plate 9. Lily Capital St Mark’s.
Works, 10.164 (facing). Plate 10. The Four Venetian Flower-Orders, (figs 3 b and c)
[Lily Capitals, St Mark’s.] ‘ the inner line in the figure being that of the stone behind the lily, the outer, that of the external network, taken through the side of the capital; while fig. 3c is the outer profile at its angle: and the reader will easily understand that the passing of the one of these lines into the other is productive of the most exquisite and wonderful series of curvatures possible within such compass, no two views of the capital giving the same contour’
Works, 11.332 (facing). Plate 7. St Mark’s Details of Lily Capitals. This is a reduced plate from Ruskin’s Examples of the Architecture of Venice Selected and Drawn to Measurement From the Edifices (1851) Works, 11.309-50.
See Unrau (1984). This Sheet is reproduced on p.79. Study of the lily capital of the northwest angle. Fig. 44.
Sheet No. 134 (RL 1636 box).
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