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[diagram]                                                             No 33 - 34	Ca Danieli	54
                                                                      
                                                                      Palazzo Danieli:  No 33.  True traceries of the windows described above
                                                                      		C. is a left hand cusp: C-b is continuous.  b2 is the
                                                                      		point B; in the continued line lay b2 on b: making
                                                                      		the lines coincide:  and A2 is the apex of arch:  then
                                                                      		lay A on A2: ad a2 on a: and A, and A a2 C2
For early cusping vid Loach. plate IX H 10 D.                         		will give the opposite cusp.
                                                                      		No 34.  Two traceries from left hand cusp of same
                                                                      		window The one, at A gives nearly the base of the cusp
                                                                      		as it dies into the arch: and the other, at B  nearly the apex.
                                                                      		The line of the enclosing arch is seen in two places at the edge
                                                                      		of the paper in B: and all along in A: the paper was bent
                                                                      		into it. in B some attempt was made to trace the bottom of the
                                                                      		cusp chamfer.  The two lines about express its depth.
                                                                      Cusps.		Now note in this architecture, the esquisite grace of the
                                                                      		great cusp, whose line is one unbroken curve melting
                                                                      		into the other, as theoretically foliation ought to be, vid fig 2
                                                                      		p 51, and compare it with the foliation of the cusp, which is
                                                                      		actually nothing more than three triangles set on its fillet as
                                                                      		opposite, fig 1 and then a little softened: The reason being
                                                                      		that the very value of the great cusp renders it wiser to insist
                                                                      		upon its line by reduplication, than to vary it by another
                                                                      		harmony: Consider how much finer in this respect 1 is, when
                                                                      		softened than 2, 4, or even the frequent and beautiful 3

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