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                                                                      Circle mouldings.
                                                                      
                                                                      		the Casa Vittora: and sometimes merely parting with the
                                                                      		dentil and keeping the 4 angles.
                                                                      Cusps.		How the Cusp came to this transitional 5th is still a
                                                                      		matter of question with me:  I cannot but think it now not
                                                                      		so much an omission of the 4th and 5th as an imitation
                                                                      		of the Dominican, and Franciscan Ecclesiastical Gothic.
                                                                      		The house which bear most on the origin of the cusp are
                                                                      		1.  San Maria mater Domini:  the early point.  2nd.
                                                                      		2nd.  Windows behind Frari
Then consider, in the final condition of the 6th;  the                		3rd.  Pal. Priuli Cut cusp.
cusp vanishing as in San Giovanni Evangelista & Contarini Fasan.      		4.  Palace in Canal near Teatro Malibran, Cut cusp.
                                                                      		5.  Palace at Miracoli, high small window:
                                                                      
This Miracoli one, a beautiful cut cusp with most delicate            		Suppose we the cusp established:  How comes the Circle
leaf transition.  cap.                                                		interposed between the 5th.
                                                                      		I have no doubt that this is the Venetian final interpretation
                                                                      		of the Circles built in from Aquileia etc:  In the
                                                                      		Palazzo Grandiben, we have the 5th with horizontal
                                                                      		shield decoration;  in the Priuli, and
                                                                      		we have circles on each side - or, as at S. M. Matre
                                                                      		Domini and the Bacon Priuli at the top.
                                                                      		Beside the cavalli we find the circles enlarge
                                                                      		At the Loredan and small ruin behind Foscari

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