[M.187L]                                                              [M.187]	Ca Porte di Ferro. Academia Gate.	187
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                                                                      Casa Porta di Ferro Contarini  Certainly the most graceful 14th century
                                                                      		 work I have found externally in Venice:  at p 63 Gothic
                                                                      		book one of the arches of its balustrade, real size: with one of
                                                                      		the intermediate leafage groups, each foil of the spiral
                                                                      		successively laid over the other some half an inch deep &
                                                                      		beautifully modulated:  Compare with the central boss, that
                                                                      		of the great roses of the flower plinth of the arch of Agnes
                                                                      		Venier, noted at p 17.
                                                                      		at page 63 l a - b and a2 b2 real size, is the
                                                                      		vertical section and c d the horizontal section of the balustrade
                                                                      		through its cusps c c2 d d2 being the cusp projection
                                                                      		I found it impossible in the drawing to show the grace &
                                                                      		suddenness of the depression of the main leaf lobe to its
                                                                      		point.  The section along its central depression from x to
                                                                      		y on p 63 would be as opposite fig 1.
                                                                      Bas reliefs in front of Academy delle belle arti.  There are three
                                                                      		now in the middle higher than the rest, over the door way:  under
                                                                      		the canopy of which a side of the top is given at fig 1 p
                                                                      		p 72 l Gothic book.  The small figure in the ridge of the
                                                                      		gable of course much foreshortened in drawing is highly
                                                                      		curious  Under it is a Madonna with fo ying angels on
                                                                      		each side beautifully quaint and bold in placing and
                                                                      		cutting, and exceedingly  like the two on each side of the

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