[M.38L]                                                               [M.38]
[diagram]                                                             No 15 - 16	Church of Frari. Ca' d'Oro	38
                                                                      
                                                                      		The gables are sadly defaced:  Their internal foliation has been something
                                                                      		as opposite.  The lines of the arch mouldings look like simple
                                                                      		[diagram] The base of the shafts confused by brick & tile work
                                                                      		- the shafts of green marble.  The cable moulding in the cornice
                                                                      		below, (of bricks all but the string & brackets; left white)
                                                                      		is curious from its radiation:  it is as I have drawn it and as
                                                                      		close in the coil:  but there should be a space between it and the
                                                                      		diamonds as opposite.  The arches below run up, with the
                                                                      		cornice, all along the façade, exactly as at the San G & P only
                                                                      		here, there is a piece of brickwork of an Arabesque line
                                                                      		above - as so often seen in Canaletto;  it is seen in perspective
                                                                      		to the top, with two bits of the shafts of the central & crowning
                                                                      		niche in my drawing.  The arches of the cornice and their
                                                                      		bracket are drawn at a: the circular sunk holes of brick
                                                                      		each have a different filling; 5 more are given above
                                                                      	No 16 Fig 2 is not enough explained in drawing: The fillet round
                                                                      		the arch being produced by a slight hollow seen in the section at
                                                                      		A. which point is the A2 of the drawn arch, and, B is B2.
                                                                      		The leaves rise boldly out of this depression.
                                                                      Traceries	No 17 fig 1: Rude drawing of the tracery of the two larger
                                                                      Ca d'Oro.	windows on the wide, or Rialto side of the secon first story
                                                                      		of ca d’Oro: The tracery was drawn from the innermost
                                                                      		window, next central arcade;  looking from within so as to get as

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