[M.50L]                                                               [M.50]	Fondaco de Turchi.	50
                                                                      
                                                                      		wall face is covered with irregular slabs of marble; and the
                                                                      		spaces between the dentils carefully fitted with long apparent
                                                                      		voussoirs.
                                                                      		Fig 3 is the section of the base, which at the level d e runs
                                                                      		continuously along the arches, pilasters, and shafts: The line f2
                                                                      		is the true section: the space at the angle is singularly rude
                                                                      		& blunt - just a shade more developed than the space of St
                                                                      		Ambrogio Milan: its section through the centre is indicated at fig
                                                                      		4, but it is quite blunt in execution, and projects oddly, as if
                                                                      		pushed out of the middle of the roll, having no traces of
                                                                      		lines above it, it is a process, not an overlaid leaf.
                                                                      Pisan Gothic - (continued from p 48 l:) or radiant lines of arch.
                                                                      		- this a general though not constant character:  Leaf capitals
                                                                      		of great elegance - and the simplest outline - approximaing
                                                                      		to early English in circular shafts in groups or single: sometimes
                                                                      		as in Como- bound together with serpent. & thus connecting
                                                                      		themselves with Lucca on one side. Venice on the other.
                                                                      		Compare balustrade of St Marks carefully:  Into this group
                                                                      		will fall the beautiful circular gates of Verona: the cloisters
                                                                      		of Duomo, Verona - its facial arcades: & hosts of churches
                                                                      		at Florence - Pisa - Pistoya - The chief vestige of this style
                                                                      		that I have found in Venice is the little church of
                                                                      San Nicolo	San Nicolo de' Tolentini, whose capitals are nothing else
                                                                      de Tolentini
                                                                      Venice.

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