[M2.112L]                                                             [M2.112]								112
                                                                      
[diagrams]                                                            		detached shafts of lower story, while the pilaster heads
                                                                      		are elaborately florid;  the whole building being thus
                                                                      		patchwork) only in the Ducal palace it is so strange on
                                                                      		the one hand to find some of the capitals so utterly
                                                                      		coarse and vile - while towards the angle they better
                                                                      		gradually as if the architect expected more people to look
                                                                      		at them from the piazzetta and from between the columns
                                                                      		than from the sea:  In fact the current of people might
                                                                      		be considered as setting broad from the Ponte della paglia
                                                                      		as marked by the tidal lines opposite, and when they
                                                                      		spread most, the upper columns would be most regarded
                                                                      Brick Cross Patterns.  Used by Titian in his presentation of the Virgin
                                                                      		when for the rest this architecture is utterly vile, and
                                                                      		very dexterously in San Zaccaria:  the old portion of the
                                                                      		Gothic building left in the south east {angle} of the Campo
                                                                      		when there are two patterns in brick of red and white
                                                                      		crosses, as opposite - this from memory;  but must I
                                                                      		think be right as the patterns were mere alternations of the
                                                                      		simplest arrangement possible  The long bricks are indispensable.
                                                                      		The Lombardic coloured brickwork however never appears
                                                                      		in energy at Venice.  It is all small:  All the patterns
                                                                      		which I have been drawing so laboriously appear in far
                                                                      		greater splendour here at Padua at Venice they are just
                                                                      		like plants growing smaller in the sea air.  The [drawing] pattern for

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