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                                                                      				HOUSE AT ARSENAL
                                                                      	Extract from Sansoumo - Case and Palazzi, p 381
                                                                      		Smallness  of houses towards terra firma - as earlier
                                                                      p 382  Architecture of Goths - same page:  Height of house
                                                                      the lege Daula same page.
                                                                      	--- House No 55, H b 1 in fig 1 the band of the shaft, observe
                                                                      that the cavette appeared to me constructed thus
                                                                      				but only of curves that blended into
                                                                      				one line             of this however I cannot
                                                                      		be quite certain, it is too small to judge:
		The steps themselves are merely decorated on the side               Staircase.	Of the staircase only the trefoiled arches remain only
with an incision like a half breed:  i.e.                             at the top - plan being exactly that of the Bembo one
                                                                      p 118 Selvatico - They have been as at fig 2 plain
                                                                      incised - like Doge’s Palaces   Capitals rude leafy
                                                                      florid - seem to have been changed - All carrying a re-
                                                                      naissance looking plinth fig 3  An arch over a gutter
                                                                      which runs under the stair is about a foot wide of the
                                                                      same trefoil as balustrade, very pretty so drawn in dark-
                                                                      ness.
                                                                       Below a in fig 1 is drawn the curious base, its roll end
                                                                      cavette - or rather plain pyramidal or cornice base
                                                                      are of course round on the square plinth which is in
                                                                      same block;  but now half buried, the half shaft;  the
                                                                      band being in the middle,

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