[M.139L]                                                              [M.139]
                                                                      No 114	Murano. Duomo.  House at Murano	139
                                                                      
                                                                      		as I once thought. deduce it entirely from the chipped slab:  Figs
                                                                      		2. 3. Section and profile of one of the capitals of lower story of apse.
                                                                      		There are however more graceful ones than this:  In 2 the
Two or three of the capitals are in red marble.                       		concave line is the bell & convex flower work - at the angle: at
                                                                      		the side it would be as at 5, or perhaps more correctly 6.
[diagram]                                                             		of course no undercutting:  4 is leaf a of capital more
                                                                      		accurate.  Note these caps are browned or discoloured down to
                                                                      		their point - though of marble.  The joints shafts are the purest white
                                                                      		Fig 1 is their base as  far as the wear admits of its outline being
                                                                      		felt.  It has no angle leaves:  the mouldings are circular
                                                                      		down to p, and stand on the plain square plinth below.
                                                                      House at Murano p 53 l Goth book.  Tracery of larger right hand
                                                                      		window: A tracery bar and cusps.  B. archivolt the
                                                                      		rest explains itself only note the archaic and ugly setting
                                                                      		of cusp: and the entire and long coincidence of foils with
                                                                      		smaller roll.  The [?] cavetto in tracery bar should perhaps be a little
                                                                      		deeper:  and the cusp a little wider, to give thickness to
                                                                      		the bar:  The circle in middle of 4 foil carries a shield
                                                                      		it projects a little above the cusps, being held as opposite
                                                                      		fig 1.
                                                                      		How different the ungraceful cusp pinned on to the curve as
                                                                      		it were, from the scymitar one at page 48 l.
                                                                      No 114.		Gives the windows looking to the garden, at the back of this same

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