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                                                                      No 73 74.	Ducal palace. Front Windows & Balcony	98
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                                                                      Bases.	cridges from the spiral inwards - fig 3.  but they are hardly
                                                                      		hollowed - no - I am wrong, they are done as in fig 4 a
                                                                      		mere chamfer on the edge of the spiral:  Then slightly
                                                                      		touched into hollowness, and made expressive of leafy flow
                                                                      		- finally the leaf points are traced - and the central rib
                                                                      		cut - by means of lateral incisions:  vid section coloured
                                                                      		red, fig 2 No 73, and then a mere drill hold well turned
                                                                      		in the flat vertical side turns it into the shortest leaf lobe
                                                                      		and we have a full five lobed leaf, of the plan, was
                                                                      		it unfolded - of 1 or 2 opposite - but bent round into
                                                                      		section 3.  Nothing could possibly be more simple or
                                                                      		exquisite.
                                                                      		Fig 3 shows the upper view:  the larger rib on the side
                                                                      		of the roll - above the point is curious;  as if there
                                                                      		were some idea of considering the filleted shield as the
                                                                      		root of the leaf as in the capitals, the filleted leaf
                                                                      		of the Lombard:  Note this especially.  Fig 4 another
                                                                      		try at it, side ways, but the spiral too small.
                                                                      		The stem on fig 3 was the edged shadow thrown back
                                                                      		from the roll ridges.
                                                                      		Fig 5   Flanked dentil and jamb base 6in perspective.
                                                                      No 74.		Tracery real size of the balcony in front of centre of
                                                                      Balcony		the front to sea of Doge’s Palace.  The only instance

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