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                                                                      			DUCAL PALACE  ST MARKS
                                                                      
                                                                      		p 183 Pareri makes me think the "ambulum" may have been a
                                                                      		walk outside on the top of the present arcade?
                                                                      		Again, Vid Selvatico’s note at p 108 about the red
                                                                      		columns, He assumes somewhat too boldly that they
                                                                      		could not be the same as now.
                                                                      (St Mark’s.  En passant, I must see what Cicognara says of Andrea
                                                                      		Pisano’s sculptures there. Quoted p 110 Selvatico)
                                                                      Ducal palace.  The passage at 109 is the clearest of Selvatico’s he
                                                                      		will have the whole thing knocked down and rebuilt and
                                                                      		still we come to the face of the refare la fazade.
                                                                      But observe, Selvatico at p 520 gives the Capitals of lower
                                                                      		story to the year 1463 and the porta della Carta to 1443
                                                                      		This, I think is absurd but I cannot compare the
                                                                      		sculptures   carefully.
bringing it connected also with the work of the Madonna del           		At p 136 Selvatico we have three documents fixing the
Orto, which compare 1399.                                             		door safe enough to 1443, It is ridiculous supposing the
                                                                      		palace of same time.
	q.  These statues were those on the renaissance pyramid              		But then what were the "Figure" for which the Bons
opposite Giant’s stair built 1462;  vid below p 72.                   		were paid in 1443 quoted by Sel. p 134.
                                                                      	A.	were they not the statues in the Gothic work of the facade,
                                                                      		otherwise unnoticed by Selvatico, except at p 389.

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