[M.141L]                                                              [M.141]	Ca Loredan.  Ca Farsetti	141
                                                                      
                                                                      		instructive to the architect than the rich and perfect effect of the
                                                                      		touches of shade on these capitals: and their delicious value
                                                                      		and point - seen from below:  though above, they have not
                                                                      		even the usual Byzantine artifice of undercutting. far less
                                                                      		the precise lines and delicate chiselling of the Fondaco
                                                                      		di Turchi.  They are every way blunt & miserable in cutting
                                                                      		but the design so good, and the point of  shade so set - witness
                                                                      		the wreath at p 50: when the stems are carefully rounded
                                                                      		xx and deep cut down - though not under - and where the
                                                                      		use of the (ivy?) leaf is peculiarly dextrous:  the pattern
                                                                      		of leaf is varied on every one of the shafts that have it, but is
                                                                      		the same in style.
                                                                      		The Gothic work is later:  and as far as I could see, very
                                                                      		good;  I think middle of 14th century, or perhaps later: xx
                                                                      		the features of the Venice well cut and refined.
                                                                      		In fig 1 the section of capital gives the leaves of the rude
                                                                      		imitative Corinthian one.  Note the strange shape of the bell-like
                                                                      		St Marks inside.
                                                                      Palazzo Farsetti. p 52 Housebook 2.  On left hand page
                                                                      		elevation of the extremity next Rialto of lower ground story, remarkable
                                                                      		for the rich development of the panel arch.
                                                                      		In order to have the elevation correctly complete another small
                                                                      		round arch, and add moulding as far as to x1 on the left.  Above x in

[Version 0.05: May 2008]