[M.107L] [M.107] Ducal Palace. Campo San Zaccaria 107
[diagram]
Opposite 1 is the arrangement of the tracery, spiral shafts
and abac. head: The capital a fine group of banded
leaves: well rooted however so as to form a kind
of independent capital to the roll a; the capital
section at 2 all below b being confined to the
spiral shaft: the leaves falling to the jamb at once
on the rest of the bell. Same small dogteeth
and all worked in the Lucchese marble.
Gothic of San Zaccaria p 19 Door book. additional notes
This door I have daguerreotyped: it has one section for
the square door, a b (D book) another for the arch
above b c - c being on the field of the basrelief
and the tracery, so marked, between the two joints
surrounding and belonging to it, the proper arch
section is b c2 In both sections the dotted
line represents that of the flowers lapping over
until they meet the roll. These leaves are all late -
ill cut & feeling less: they are the curled leaf and
leaf with six stamened rose alternately, which we
find on the small rich palace, and on the Pesaro at
St Benedetto, but these are less vigorous: softer
and less undercut - far less picturesque without
being more refined or more pure. On the moulding of
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