[M.68L]                                                               [M.68]
                                                                      No 47.	Ca Giustiniani	68
                                                                      
                                                                      		in fig F. which is a perspective sketch of head of window,
                                                                      		showing the 4foil:  G perspective sketch of lower arches of
                                                                      		tracery with their curious finial:  showing the plain filleted
                                                                      		not trefoiled cusp and use of section B . Observe in a the flattened
                                                                      		semicircle going round tracery as at Ca d’Oro, and
                                                                      		in G. the strange pilaster head; or rather half shaft
                                                                      		head;  (there are the first half shafts I have met with)
                                                                      		whose leafage is florid in feeling;  but bluntly and
                                                                      		coldly cut, and the head vilely;  the base of this
                                                                      		½ shaft (also that of the whole central arcade)
                                                                      		is seen below:  I suspect restoration.
                                                                      Traceries  Fig 2.  Traceries of central arcade: of third or principal
                                                                      		story:  The sections A and B at arch head and
                                                                      		through cusp of the lower arch, C, were drawn with
                                                                      		great care:  singular for both their flat wide, half levelled
                                                                      		cavetto, and their deep half levelled roll.  Exactly
                                                                      		the reverse, as we shall see presently, of the Pisani
                                                                      		C. cusp of main arch: how curiously different from
                                                                      		Danieli’s:  in its parallelism for so long a line;  though
                                                                      		the fillet left is not above a ¼ of an inch deep;  too
                                                                      		thick both in the drawing & section, and in the 4foil above,
                                                                      		D it is not left; The filleting of the cusp excessively
                                                                      		shallow, almost a line   It is strange that one cusp should be

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