[M.207L] [M.207] St Andrea. Gutter Dogtooth 207
main door may be mentioned with Miracoli as a lovely example
of cinquecento: remarkable for beautiful use of bindweed
Convolvulus.
A There is a fair simple trefoil rather blunt in the joint
in the windows of St Andrea; whose basrelief over western
door is interesting - Christ, with Peter and Andrew - Peter
walking on the water: a rocky coast, spring & fine. The
This dogt. So far separated as to become almost a chain of detached present Gondola was {floating by} St Andrews boat.
stars- as at p 8 bit book. and very small, is used round two In St Giacomo dell Orio, the capital is has the earliest
circular marbles inserted in first story of a house in Campo St Polo rude spiral on the angle; as constant at Padua & throughout
- a series of florid 6ths which have had their cusps cut away. north Italy, a single byzantine capital is used together
and above, there is series of beautiful slender shafted florid capitalised with it.
5ths with circular marbles inserted in cabled rolls. The 6ths San Giovan in Bragora same as the Carmini
have florid capitals with cherub heads. St Marks. Upper shafts between the first and second porch
Each exactly 2 " 7¾ round at base, and 1 " 5 apart
at base, and on octagonal [?] plinths 6 in the side
which their circular bases meet [diagram] so
Dogteeth of Venice. The gutters are of marble, {theoretically} chamfered on
the edge, but in fact, hacked into diamonds, only
then the east side of the diamond is cut on the line of
the two leaves, down to the chamfer surface: a portion
of which flat is seen between the diamonds. But
there is no undercutting.
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