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                                                                               No 137, 138.
                                                                      Casa Falier.	 Nothing is more remarkable than the exquisite precision
                                                                      of these early capitals in the torch:  and their grace
                                                                      of line, as compared with the blundering richness of the
                                                                      florid ones:  I happened to-day to pass from the  best
                                                                      example of the florid capital I have yet found - the
                                                                      palace near Post office (Cavalli?) to the Casa Falier;
                                                                      It was passing from stone mason’s work to the most deli-
                                                                                  cate sculptors:  The lines of the Falier capitals are
                                                                      drawn with a precision which no cinque cento work could
                                                                      possibly surpass: and not one line is thrown away
                                                                      Seen near, they are the most incomparable study I
                                                                      have yet had in Venice, but their effect, seen from
                                                                         a	below, is not so good as Byzantine work, they are
                                                                      too fine to be traceable in distance.  They should be
                                                                      compared carefully with the 10th house, p 12 Housebook I
                                                                      and that beyond Rialto.
                                                                      No 137 is the second capital from the left;  in first 
                                                                      story I its section 2 section below joint in another, the
                                                                      central shaft. 3 section along line a in 5 i.e. semicir-
                                                                      cularly through roots of the two upper lobes:  (Central
                                                                      lobe and one below to the left) 4  section along root of
                                                                      the leaf (on the roll) to its central ribs.  Ther[s]e are
                                                                      three capitals on the main story like this one, the capi-
                                                                      tals of Istrian stone, the shafts of sugary marble;  but

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