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[drawings]                                                            		This tomb most rudely out in effigy and yet twenty
                                                                      		times more sentiment than Vendramin.  It has arms on
                                                                      		bracket as opp.  Gabled dentils.  Cable round with ribbed
                                                                      		leaves at angles, and sec [drawing] as usual.
                                                                      		Spiral shafts              with developed though rude
                                                                      		leaf capitals. Its figures though vilely cut far finer in
                                                                      		expression than those of the former one.
                                                                      Of the Venetian Leaf Cornice.
                                                                      		1st of Cornices in general.
                                                                      		After using my definitions of architecture;  into the
                                                                      		parts supporting and supported, consider that they bear two
                                                                      		modes of support.  Wall support and shaft support, each
                                                                      		of them an expanded above, {to carry superincumbent weight}
                                                                      		by what is called a capital in one case, a cornice in
                                                                      		the other.  A capital is the cornice of a shaft or a cornice
                                                                      		the capital of a wall;  and this we may slice the wall
                                                                      		into pieces - and form pilasters or piers or cut it into
Work out in course of the chapter the St Mark Wedge capitals          		shafts with skies  of cornice, forming the early  capital
To-day I noticed in St Marks a most refined one                       		Vid opp. fig 2.
exactly of the pattern - though immeasurably better cut -             		We may generally then reason of the principle of the sloping
of the angle of St M Ambrogio one;  a kind of fir cone                		line a b and of its decoration.
with a handle to it, whence came this                                 		 (Then, in due course, refer to long capitals such as
                                                                      		that of the bridge arch at Verona)
                                                                      		Then first, give the level plinth in its simplest Fondaco di

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