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Capitals.
Byzantine. A. various.
Byzantine B. Dying out. Commisary of Police a capital Now of Capitals! There will be; first the Byzantine of
which I have called L.L. and of which I must look at the Various character - some half Corinthian - some Ionic
example with 3rd order in house No 2, and again - Palazzo and associated with them in the Fondaco de Turchi: the
Sergedo most valuable. Plain truncated - in the Church of San Jacopo del’ Orio
with the earliest Lombard spiral.
In St Marks, I apprehend I shall find some of these
simpler capitals: and they mark the coming of the
Lombardic Current.
And in Commissaire of Police house, with a byzantine They appear under swe forms
form dying out 1. A. from truncated 1 B circular truncated 1. A. The Pure truncated of the Fondaco de Turchi
of later. which on no 37 I got assocated with the pure round arch
and roll, and in No 81 with Cusps.
2nd B. Instead of rubbing and occupying angle with spiral 2nd A. The truncated and ribbed or[n] incised on the
a decoration form appears, by laying a simple leaf on the leaf: This is the capital associated constantly with my
angle as on Grand Canal No and in Ca Falier. 2nd order, vid also No 112, and many other cases when it
But this I imagine a later form assocuated with appearance goes with the round arch, as No 42.
of rose on the Lombard 3rd. Truncated - ribbed - and with spiral at the top
No 112 a beautiful example. Columns of the church of San
Jacopo dell’ Orlo: - (now associated I think, either
with round arches, as on No 112 or with pointed Gothic
San Jacopo) and door at Verona, on No 4.
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