[M.59L] [M.59] Calle dei Giardini 59
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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
[Version 0.05: May 2008]