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                                                                      	rnnaissance additions.  This is easily seen by the cornice
                                                                      of cherubs heads which runs continuously along over the
                                                                      whole   When it runs across the cavetto or concave, it is
                                                                      finely worked - of the good late Bon school or porta della
                                                                      Conta time. but at the point n2 (last page 1) it is
                                                                      rudely broken off and clumsily continued by the cornice of
                                                                      the new work: which seems the same, but is far worse cut,
	(x)  and this junction is also quite plain at a in fig 2.            in imitation of it, while the junction is seen with
                                                                      equal plainness in the masonry of the wall below at the
                                                                      point n (x)   This corrupt facing, cornice and all, but
                                                                      far more vilely cut as it passes into less conspicuous
                                                                      position is continued all round under the mass of pinna-
                                                                      cles to the south side of the Corta passage (occupying
                                                                      or perhaps partly including the space occupied in the old
                                                                      plan by the Foscari stair) and itself is as rudely
                                                                      broken in upon by the monument erected in 1625 - of
                                                                      still more degraded architecture, to Francis Maria 1
                                                                      Urbini Duci.  The place of this monument is shown by the
                                                                       dotted line in the rude f[o]igure opposite, which shows
                                                                      the present condition of the late facework, the mouldings
                                                                      at a being of course those of door opposite Giants stair,
                                                                      to the left the southern side;  the outer square lines
                                                                      being the bases, and b the first of the octagonal
                                                                      renaissance piers which carry the three arches under the
                                                                      clock. (above which are the arches erected in continuation
                                                                      and imitation

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