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233 back of 188 234 189
MEASURES OF No 128. No 128. ST MARKS BASIC PLINTH
a - b 9 " 10 St Marks Facade: The first elevation above the pavement is a grand
b - r 2 " 9 This properly should be stated, not as basic plinth, raised about a food above the pavement accord
b - c 12 " 5 b r but on a line from Y press on a b ing to its swell more or less: and forming the floor of
c - c3 4 " 11 or 5 ft not very easily marked all the recesses except those of the central and northern
off from the curve: it is the stilt doors. It is divided into long panels in about the pro-
c3 d (-) 7 " 8 of the arch on the ground. And the portion of fig 1 p 44 1 door book, and of section a a2
depth of the curve c 3 d from this fig 2 the panel has being in red marble and the
d - g 9 " 6¾ chord: 11 in. enclosed flat in white let in to the depth a2 b
d - e 2 " 0 The masonry of this red pannelling is very curious:
c - h 16 " 3 The top of this basement is diamonded with red and white
C - x 13 " 8¼ and the plan of it is on No 128. In which r is the
h - k 39 " 0 great detached shaft, or at back its circular base
k - l (-) 13 " 4½ For notes on this curve vid below. towards the pia zetta de Lioni c h is the opening to side
l - m 2 "10½ Atrium k o the principal door, the plinth being continu-
k - o 27 " 4 ous under the others.
l - n 11 " 2 r there being nearest point of the lowest member of the
l k2 10 " 8½ roughly, the pavement irregular base of the detached shaft: which singularly enough is
o - q 62 " 1 cylindrical: the measures of the whole are opposite
The most remarkable feature of the whole is the curious
The whole breadth of the front of the plinth therefore is and delicate curve whose chord is k 2; that chord
12 " 5 being 13 " 4½ the maximum vertical depth of the curve
x 16 " 3 from it is 1 " 0½ but the curve is not a circle; it
x 39 " 0 has a parabolic or hyperbolic form: and may only be
x 27 " 4
x 62 " 1__
or 157 " 1
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