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                                                                      No 137, 138.
                                                                      
                                                                      Casa Falier.	 Nothing is more remarkable than the exquisite precision
                                                                      		of these early capitals in the torch:  and their grace
                                                                      		of line, as compared with the blundering richness of the
                                                                      		florid ones:  I happened to-day to pass from the  best
                                                                      		example of the florid capital I have yet found - the
                                                                      		palace near Post office (Cavalli?) to the Casa Falier;
                                                                      		It was passing from stone mason’s work to the most delicate
                                                                      		sculptors:  The lines of the Falier capitals are
                                                                      		drawn with a precision which no cinque cento work could
                                                                      		possibly surpass: and not one line is thrown away
                                                                      		Seen near, they are the most incomparable study I
                                                                      		have yet had in Venice, but their effect, seen from
                                                                      	a	below, is not so good as Byzantine work, they are
                                                                      		too fine to be traceable in distance.  They should be
                                                                      		compared carefully with the 10th house, p 12 Housebook I
                                                                      		and that beyond Rialto.
                                                                      		No 137 is the second capital from the left;  in first 
                                                                      		story I its section 2 section below joint in another, the
                                                                      		central shaft. 3 section along line a in 5 i.e. semicircularly
                                                                      		through roots of the two upper lobes:  (Central
                                                                      		lobe and one below to the left) 4  section along root of
                                                                      		the leaf (on the roll) to its central ribs.  There are
                                                                      		three capitals on the main story like this one, the capitals
                                                                      		of Istrian stone, the shafts of sugary marble;  but

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