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                                                                      	circle between two roun s;  but how lovely treated in the
                                                                      Scuolo di San Rocco:  Instead of the bold arches with
                                                                      simple capitals, or, as here, continuous but ready for
                                                                       decoration by filling the spandrils - we have these
                                                                      meagre Greek architrave bent round into traces bars -
                                                                      carried or excessively rich capitals;  and decorated
                                                                      by panels and roses under the soffits - exactly where no
                                                                      decoration can ever be seen! while all to the front is as
                                                                       bare and[n] harsh as plain edges can make it;  and in
                                                                      the V[C]endranice Caleghi the brackets which carry the cor-
                                                                      nice are placed exactly above the circle of the tracery,
                                                                      where the tracery is wweakest:  this idea of putting a
                                                                      bracket leaning ag[h]ainst a tracery is to me, of all the
                                                                      vile things I have seen of renaissance, the vilest;  The
                                                                      vulgar musical inducements and hanging rebands of the
                                                                      Caleghi are in ornamental just what this construction
                                                                      is in mechanical science.
                                                                       Ducal palace  In the last walk that I took in the upper arcade of ducal
                                                                      	palace, I thought I had been hardly justified in supposing
                                                                      the ill executed capitals to be of later time;  more es-
                                                                      pecially as I found the upper traceries of the Frari
                                                                      also rough chiselled and their capitals vilely cut
                                                                      so that it would seen a general pr[a]actice of the Italians
                                                                      workmen to put careless cutting into the upper stories
                                                                      Co d’Oro	(Note the remakrable exception in Ca d’Oro where also note
                                                                      the early Byzantine forms of capitals used in the

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