[M.137L]                                                              [M.137]	Arch Madonna. S. M. Mater domini (Ramo della Chiesa)	137
                                                                      
                                                                      		circle containing Foscari arms.  (The opposite one had a
                                                                      		plain dentil) very interesting, showing perhaps the real
                                                                      		origin by a series of dentils interposed between drops of
                                                                      		ornament at p 14, and on brick doors otherwise. connected
                                                                      		with true chap of Andrea Dandolo.  Observe 19
                                                                      		diamonds in the circle.
                                                                      		Fig 4  the finial:  The arch is seen on both sides.
                                                                      		(and if it be of Foscari turn certainly the Madonna is
                                                                      		nearly as stiff as anything on Ducal palace.  The
                                                                      		flower border (note in sec a the moulding is plain only flowers on b)
                                                                      		is also rude - but much injured by time:  the rose and
                                                                      		its stem is then as usual, but very short stemmed)
                                                                      		- not exactly same on both sides;  for the two circles
                                                                      		instead of being in dentils are in rolls:  and one instead
                                                                      		of the quartered lion has two plain roses of fig 5 pattern
                                                                      Truncation	How general the principle of truncating 4 foils and
                                                                      of Cusps		keeping trefoils sharp of course because the point of
                                                                      		a 4 foil is necessarily too sharp to be either strong or
                                                                      		agreeable
                                                                      P 33 G. book.Fig 1. is shaft head of third story of a house
                                                                      		in the Ramo della Chiesa - just behind S. M. Mater
                                                                      		Domini.  This house, with others, may be named as
                                                                      		an example of very early pure 5th, in third story, on this

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