(36.) Photograph of the Angle Capital of Upper Arcade seen in No. 34.
Showing the pierced portions, and their treatment.
(37-38.) Capitals of the Upper Arcade.
Showing the grandest treatment of architectural foliage attained by the 14th century masters; massive for all purposes of support; exquisitely soft and refined in contour, and faultlessly composed.
SECTION III. Time of "THE MASTERS."
252. (39.) Study of the top of the Pilaster next the Castelbarco Tomb. (R.)
The wild fig leaves are unfinished; for my assistant having unfortunately shown his solicitude for their preservation too energetically to some street boys who were throwing stones at them, they got a ladder, and rooted them up the same night. The purple and fine-grained white marbles of the pilaster are entirely uninjured in surface by three hundred years' exposure. The coarse white marble above has moldered, and is gray with lichens.
(40.) Study of the base of the same Pilaster, and connected Facade. (R.)
Showing the effect of differently colored marbles arranged in carefully inequal masses.