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                                                                      Palazzo Pruili.  Vid p 195 M.  Its main door has been perhaps the most
                                                                      interesting in Venice, opening on the quay of San Severo
                                                                      A square one, massy plinthed with a cch; exactly in
                                                                      type like that at the Miracoli turning its angle precisely
                                                                      as fig 5 p 33 Gothic book but with a bold and rich
                                                                      leaf in the centre of lintel is surmounted by an arch
                                                                      carried on a short jamb;  fig 1 No 136 The spandrils have
                                                                      had two lions now broken away  very spirited.  Fig 2
                                                                      is the jamb section, unique as far as I have seen, in
                                                                      the one sided steepness of dentil.  Above the capital,
                                                                      the roll r. divides into two and then the outer group
                                                                      of mouldings forms the s[a]quare:  dentil outside
                                                                      and roll inside, and the inner the archivolt cutting off
                                                                      the great roll S, which in[s] the jamb is a spiral the
                                                                      same as Doge palace tracery;  and has carried above
                                                                      its capital a tracery probably of great beauty, now
                                                                      torn away and plastered up:[½]  The dotted line fig 2 is the
                                                                      roll at the root of the capital fig 3 the base of the jamb
                                                                      whose section would be
                                                                      the insertion of the lower roll into the dentil hollow
                                                                      is curious, fig 4 capital abacus place fig 5 general
                                                                      look of the leafy banded capital.
                                                                      The important angle window daguerreotyped is remarkable
                                                                       first for its two dentils side by side, down by its small

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