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                                                                      		circle between two rounds;  but how basely treated in the
                                                                      		Scuola di San Rocco:  Instead of the bold arches with
                                                                      		simple capitals, or, as here, continuous - {but} ready for
                                                                      		decoration by filling the spandrils - we have these
                                                                      		meagre Greek architraves bent round into {tracery} bars -
                                                                      		carried on excessively rich capitals;  and decorated
                                                                      		by panels and roses under the soffits - exactly where no
                                                                      		decoration can ever be seen! while all to the front is as
                                                                      		bare and harsh as plain edges can make it;  and in
                                                                      in Vendra-	the Vendramin Calerghi the brackets which carry the cornice
                                                                      min Calerghi	are placed exactly above the circle of the tracery,
                                                                      		where the tracery is weakest:  this idea of putting a
                                                                      		bracket leaning against a tracery is to me, of all the
                                                                      		vile things I have seen of renaissance, the vilest;  The
                                                                      		vulgar musical instruments and hanging ribands of the
                                                                      		Calerghi are in ornamental just what this construction
                                                                      	is in mechanical science.
                                                                      Ducal palace  In the last walk that I took in the upper arcade of ducal
                                                                      		palace, I thought I had been hardly justified in supposing
                                                                      		the ill executed capitals to be of later time;  more especially
                                                                      		as I found the upper traceries of the Frari
                                                                      		also rough chiselled and their capitals vilely cut
                                                                      		so that it would seen a general practice of the Italian
                                                                      		workmen to put careless cutting into the upper stories
                                                                      Ca d’Oro	(Note the remarkable exception in Ca d’Oro where also note
                                                                      		the early Byzantine forms of capitals used in the

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