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                                                                      	This tomb most rudely out in effigy and yet twenty
                                                                      times more sentiment than Vendracine.  It has arms on
                                                                      bracket as opp.  Garbled dentiles.  Cable round with ribbed
                                                                      leaves at angles, and sec             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 supraincumbent 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 cor-
                                                                      nice the capital of a wall;  and this we may slice the wall
                                                                      into pieces - and form pilasters or piers or cut it into
                                                                      shafts with skies  of cornice, forming the early  capital
	Work out in course of the chapter the St Mark Wedge capi-            Vid opp. fig 2.
tals  To-day I noticed in St Marks a most refined one                 We may generally then reason of the principle of the slop-
exactly of the pattern - though immeasurably better cut -             ing line a b and of its decoration.
of the angle of St Ambrozio one;  a kind of[g] fir cone               (Then, in due course, refer to long capitals such as
with a handle to it, whence came this                                 that of the bridge arch at Verona)
                                                                      Then first, give the level plinth in its simplest Fondaco d

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