[M.80L]                                                               [M.80]
                                                                      No 60.	House in Corte del Remer	80
                                                                      
                                                                      		No 60  Fig 1.  Relations of height, width of plinth
                                                                      		and general proportion between doors and windows of old
                                                                      		house near Rialto.
                                                                      		Fig 2.  Masonry of one of the windows.  A a b c d are
                                                                      		the points of the upper dentil, those of the facing are plain
                                                                      		enough;  and of the lower dentil, whose curves are exquisitely
                                                                      		finished.  It is strange that the upper point c. leaves just
                                                                      		one dentil above it off the rt line; probably easier to
                                                                      		curve it from the straight piece than to reverse the curve
                                                                      		below.  Fig 3.  Section a b fig 1.
                                                                      		Fig 4. sect of capital, but vid No 61: and p 122
                                                                      		This house - one of the most neglected - is also one of the loveliest
                                                                      		in Venice.  The sun, in winter, touches only the
                                                                      		angle of the court into the depth of which it is withdrawn:
                                                                      		and when the light is warm on the fondaco de Tedeschi
                                                                      		the dews of the night still hang upon the eagle
                                                                      		wings of its capitals; and the heavy moisture makes its
                                                                      		broken stair slippery and cold; and brings out into
                                                                      		continual green the neglected wild herbage of its crannies; There
                                                                      		is deeper green than theirs in the Verd antique, which
                                                                      		surrounds its peaked windows as if with a moat of
                                                                      		the Venetian sea - precious, and veined with pure white, - the golden
                                                                      		white brown of its their dentils - and the rich dark movement of the arch binds

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