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                                                                      	 detached shafts of lower story, while the pilaster heads
                                                                      are elaborately florid;  the whole building being thus
                                                                      patchwork) only in the Ducal palce it is so strange on
                                                                      the one hand to find some of the capitals so utterly
                                                                      coarse and vile - while towards the angle they better
                                                                       gradually as if the architect expected more people to look
                                                                      at them from the pia zetta and from between the columns
                                                                      than from the sea:  In fact the current of people might
                                                                      be considered as setting broad from the Ponte della paglia
                                                                      as marked by the tidal lines opposite, and when they
                                                                      spread most, the upper columns would be most regarded
                                                                      Birch Cross Patterns.  Used by Titian in his presentation of the Virgin
                                                                      when for the rest this architecture is utterly vile, and
                                                                      very dexterously in San Zaccaria:  the old portion of the
                                                                      Gothic building left in the south east angle of the Campo
                                                                      when there are two pattersn in brick of red and white
                                                                      crosses, as opposite -[o] this from memory;  but must I
                                                                      think be right as the patterns were mere alternations of th[e]
                                                                      simplest arrangement possible  The long bricks are in-
                                                                      dispensable.
                                                                      The Lombardic coloured brickwork however never appears
                                                                      in energy at Venice.  It is all small:  All the patterns
                                                                      which I have been drawing so laboriously appear in far
                                                                      greater splendour here at Padua at Venice they are just
                                                                      like plants growing smaller in the sea air.  The   pattern
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