[M.51L]                                                               [M.51]
[diagram]                                                             No 32.	Ca Danieli	51
Fig 1.                                                                
                                                                      		than blocks with the spiral headed truncation on their four sides
School 5. E.                                                          		which is drawn in No [gap] on the stone arch jamb of Verona.
                                                                      Palazzo Berno Mocenigo (Danieli)
Fig 2 [diagram]                                                       		No 32: Fig 1. Two lines traces continuously upon the
                                                                      		left hand cusp of one of the hall arches, x, x, ax2, ax3
	ft.	in                                                               		is of course continuous:  the cusp point - broken off,
a d	1 "	7½                                                            		completed in dotted lines:  ax2 in the other line is
a b	1 "	8 1/3                                                         		the same point ax2 of the first:  laying one line over
a c	1 "	6                                                             		the other:  coinciding below ax2, we have the whole
c C	2 "	6                                                             		cusp down to the abacus of capital x4, x5.
d c	3 "	8¼                                                            	No 32, Fig 2. section of the stonework as it falls on the abacus.
                                                                      		This is real size, the paper fitted to the moulding, &
                                                                      		quite accurate:  only for clearness;  note figure 1 opposite;  when
                                                                      		let a b c d be the abacus, which is square: Then the
                                                                      		stonework is moulded only on the outer angles, and is brought
                                                                      		fairly back to the edge of the abaccus behind, a singularly
                                                                      		archaic method:  The cusp emerges at the point c1
                                                                      		beginning to spring at the very abacus - yet with so
                                                                      		subtle a curve that it only shows itself as a traced line
                                                                      		for a few niches:  then steals out most gracefully. and
                                                                      		falls back to the apex in the same exquisite manner.
                                                                      		the section of this cusp is indicated in fig 1 opposite by the line
                                                                      		c1, c2, c3, c4. its outline is rudely traced in fig 2 opposite

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