[M.124L]                                                              [M.124]
                                                                      No 111	Ca Grandiben	124
                                                                      
[diagram]                                                             		it:  Can this indeed be an early tracery:  It is in point
                                                                      		of bounding the stonework by moulding, more scientific than
                                                                      		that of Mad. dell Orto.  in style it corresponds much more with
                                                                      		the Servi, fig 1 No 108  (one of the windows left in the body
                                                                      		of the church - observe the pilasters which once carried them
                                                                      		removed and deeply to be regretted tracery) and is this
                                                                      		chamfer and foll the origin of that employed afterwards so properly
Note the bit from Doge palace capitals is Istrian stone.              		in the domestic Gothic.
used constantly for pubbriche, for common work.                       The beautiful palace near Arsenal of which the shafts
                                                                      		with rich intermediate Byzantine birds are dagued.
                                                                      		has over its door the shield opposite - its back door
The older stone found by Mr Brown for me - the old Sculptor           		at least - leading into "Calle Grandiben" doubtless
alle pietra di Porto chieto and guilto is Istria - and called in      		the arms of the Grandiben family (heaps of money) who are mentioned 
 Venice pietra Bandia.                                                		in Mr Brown’s note to
                                                                      -  House No 77  Grotesque of pilaster:  its effect is not that
                                                                      Grotesque	intended by sculptor - the whites should all be darker
                                                                      		and it would then be much poorer, but the scales
                                                                      		of it are very clever:  the man must have been a
                                                                      		kind of Agassiz, and the fin at the gill radiates
                                                                      		like La Scala crests & Titian’s wing.  Note, this
                                                                      		gill goes into a hollow in the stone, the head
                                                                      		being for the rest, - cut flat by incisions into the square
                                                                      		base of the spiral chamfer.

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