[M.136L]                                                              [M.136]	Piazzetta de' Leoni. House in. Arch Madonna	136
                                                                      
Observe in case I forget to examine it, a house with five or six      		Three windows:  two ati  on the side next the bridge of sighs - forming
most beautiful 4th with a2 sec. beside the moat of the                		the corner of the house.  These are sketched in general proportion
Arsenal behind the Tana                                               		p 30 l G book fig 1  only the upper  lines of base in shafts
                                                                      		are wrong, all should be carried across at level p.
                                                                      		On page 30 the head of the window:  capitals & bases are
                                                                      		given & sec of plinth below.  Observe the Pure Byzantine
                                                                      		type of capital merely leaved: and the points of leaves
                                                                      		gracefully holding the lower fillet of abacus; while the
                                                                      		pil. is simply transitional Af:  The shaft heads as usual of
                                                                      		one block: cut through into deep shade below the roll.
                                                                      		The leaves have one central rib:  and as shown at fig
                                                                      		2 have the curling of the inter lobe - or groin developed
                                                                      		- but not the curled top.  The Archivolt sec. is most
                                                                      		rare, fig 3.
                                                                      		The other window is the same, but with Ap pils simply
                                                                      Madonna.	over Archway at Ponte.
                                                                      		On p 31 side of arch with junction of dentils, highly
                                                                      		curious:  p 31 l a - b.  the sections across a b
                                                                      		with cusp, perhaps cusp should be a little wider
                                                                      		of course in looking up. the back of the moulding b is
                                                                      		not seen on p 31. but only the flat space at junction
                                                                      		of dentils where the two fillets run into a little creek of
                                                                      		level field.  Fig 3 the ornament round left hand

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