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In St M. Book, and the related Sheets (1850), Ruskin studied the five porches of the western facade from the south numbering them 1 to 5 as he worked his way to the north. Unrau states that ‘the ground plans and tables of measurements [Ruskin] prepared for publication take the reversed order (numbering the porches 1 to 5 from north to south).’ Unrau (1984) p.75. A small sketch plan of St Mark’s reproduced by Unrau (p.147) shows the porches numbered from left to right 1 2 3 4 5 (Album 1641 p.6 RF). Four (out of a probable eleven) carefully drawn and coloured lower ground plans still exist. These appear to have been made (though not used) in preparation for plates and are glued into albums 1639 and 1642 RF. They show that Ruskin numbered the columns from left to right (north to south).
‘The panels white marble, very pure and transparent, and pale veined grey and white or yellow & white alabaster let in: slices rather thin about a b - or not much more fig 2 No 129. Notebook M p.190.
Notebook M p.196 ‘This upper plinth then which carries the shafts is given rudely on No 133, beginning at the north side, d on that paper is g2 of no 129’
Notebook M p.180 This is a reference to the measurement of 2 “7 on Sheet No. 129.
See Unrau (1984). A section from the top of Sheet No. 129 is reproduced on p.116 Study of the disposition of bases and pavement of the southwest portico before its rebuilding Fig. 87.
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