[M.81L]                                                               [M.81]
Campiello del Remer is the real name                                  No 61	House in Corte del Remer	81
                                                                      
                                                                      		them, may set with a Titian like warmth & mystery beside those
                                                                      		bands of green - one prism of pure white only shines in
                                                                      		the point of one of these arches; but all in the last stage
                                                                      		of habitable ruin;  the wind whistles through the rotten
                                                                      		door which protects the access to the Atrium, without
                                                                      		flowers and broken flowerpots lie in heaps about
                                                                      		the landing - and the rain from the granite dripstone
                                                                      		soaks into the mud and sand which has choked
                                                                      		its pavement.
                                                                      		The carvings of the great arch - fig 1 are the richest
                                                                      		I have yet seen on any arch of the kind, covering both
                                                                      		architrave & soffit Fig 1 No 61 is a careful section;  the
                                                                      		cornice or dripstone of granite its ornament seen beside it
                                                                      		and note the stone is edged by the [diagram] which
                                                                      		is in contact with the cement;  Then the facing slabs of
                                                                      		white marble, cut in to animals   and then soffit slabs
                                                                      		of which the edge is curiously archaic; being neither a roll
                                                                      		nor a square.  Perhaps the most curious thing connected with
                                                                      		the arch is that while in both ornaments the animals seem
                                                                      		throughout to be kept within the intaglio limit, yet, in the
                                                                      		soffit wreath, two little beasts, one on each side, who fill
                                                                      		an angle of the leafage, have one a paw, the other a
                                                                      		claw, extended over the flattened roll at the angle: drawn upon it

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