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[diagram] No 81, 84, 85, 86 Campiello St Rocco. Ducal Palace Lateral 105
Windows
consistent, even when it is so awkward. The Archivolts
[diagram] are of plain brick plastered over so that the bricks are
only traceable in the one on the right, and then, most
provokingly, not clearly at the top.
Opposite this tier of windows, on the other side of
the court, are four flattish round ones - less than
semicircles - of the same section - and most singularly
wrought with brick in same way, as opposite and
with exactly same arrangement of shaft and 4 pilasters
only the innermost two pilasters have been one C,
the other F. House book. F short as f opp and
both the heads in stone: shaft exactly the same as
opposite, and like that opposite, has no base, but falls
right on plinth.
(Continued from p 85) noble windows of the 3rd order next the
sea, which terminate the series. These have a noble
massy detached shaft in centre: and Lombard capital
like that described p 83 & No 64
The second window of Doge’s palace vid p 96.
Capitals Its central shaft has a very early Byzantine capital
rough in every way especially in the triple fillet of its
abacus: and the roll of reversed leaves, as usual,
has the leaf bifid at the end, a character which I saw
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