[M2.138L]                                                             [M2.138]								138
                                                                      
                                                                      		renaissance additions.  This is easily seen by the cornice
                                                                      		of cherubs heads which runs continuously along over the
(x)  and this junction is also quite plain at a in fig 2.             		whole   When it runs across the cavetto or concave, it is
                                                                      		finely worked - of the good late Bon school or porta della
[diagram]                                                             		Carta time. but at the point n2 (last page 1) it is
Urbini monument                                                       		rudely broken off and clumsily continued by the cornice of
[diagram]                                                             		the new work: which seems the same, but is far worse cut,
                                                                      		in imitation of it, while the junction is seen with
                                                                      		equal plainness in the masonry of the wall below at the
                                                                      		point n (x)   This corrupt facing, cornice and all, but
                                                                      		far more vilely cut as it passes into less conspicuous
                                                                      		position is continued all round under the mass of pinnacles
                                                                      		to the south side of the Carta passage (occupying
                                                                      		or perhaps partly including the space occupied in the old
                                                                      		plan by the Foscari stair) and itself is as rudely
                                                                      		broken in upon by the monument erected in 1625 - of
                                                                      		still more degraded architecture, to Francis Maria 1
                                                                      		Urbini Duci.  The place of this monument is shown by the
                                                                      		dotted line in the rude figure opposite, which shows
                                                                      		the present condition of the late facework, the mouldings
                                                                      		at a being of course those of door opposite Giants stair,
                                                                      		to the left the southern side;  the outer square lines
                                                                      		being the bases, and b the first of the octagonal
                                                                      		renaissance piers which carry the three arches under the
                                                                      		clock. (above which are the arches erected in continuation
                                                                      		and imitation

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