[M.45L]                                                               [M.45]	Ca d’Oro Traceries. First Story	45
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                                                                      		to show the arrangement of the dentils:  b above c below the
                                                                      		capital:  the two on the left, with their intermediate ornament
                                                                      		go right round the whole window, as a square border, though
                                                                      		curiously involved;  they are seen in the section E. of No 17.
                                                                      		another dentil appears in the section b here;  this goes round
                                                                      		the ogee arch, and is the dentil marked d c in section
                                                                      		A of No 17 while a b there is the large dentil e f of section
                                                                      		E:  The square line round section a is the abacus head: which
                                                                      		has a slight excess over the pilasters as seen in the sections b c
                                                                      		of No 23.
                                                                      		The smaller window is executed with precisely the same tracery
                                                                      		as the others:  onlythe cusps, instead of being merely filleted,
                                                                      		are cut clear through & left as open bands;  the same bands join
                                                                      		the head in the centre of the 4 foil like notre dame, but the
                                                                      		head is most rudely cut: The second roll which forms the
                                                                      		central tracery bars is carried through the figure A. opposite
                                                                      		melting truly into itself at the junctions.  The stonework is
                                                                      		not cut open either in the spaces a or b.  The other drawing
                                                                      		on No 23 is of course the true contour.
                                                                      Gothic schools of Venice.
                                                                      		Beginning with pure Byzantine domestic;  we have the stilted
                                                                      		round arch: [diagram] St Marks flanking arches, all alike ecclesiastical
                                                                      		& civil.  F with basket capitals.  Then

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