[M.59L] [M.59] Calle dei Giardini 59 [diagrams] cannot be sure it is of same date. The side windows have plinths as the last house D.c. and same bracket. An angel, with two fingers up, in attitude of blessing, carrying a coat of arms with chess chequers on it, under a kind of crest like that in the beautiful Byzantine house drawn three years ago, all surrounded by a square dentil is built into wall at side Beyond this house, comes a curious Saracenic front, low, yet to be studied. Then turning down the Calle dei Giardini, a small house on the right has three windows of curve and section D Da and pilaster Db but it has also a pure Lombard capital with long curled leaves at the angles, and a short leaf in the centre, instead of the bud: fig 2 opposite, and 1 section through side and a barbarous, very Lombard like, only too stupid, bas relief of a leopard on wall. Going forward, close to the gardens on the right is a door worth daguerreotyping; it has heads at the side of a richly crocketed pediment, like the tomb: Niches but the heads carry niches, with octagonal canopies of the simple design, 3 opposite the recess behind the statue a mere cavetto, a2 b2 is section on line a b
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