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                                                                      		it,  Can this indeed be an early tracery:  It is in point
                                                                      of bounding the stonework by moulding, more scientific
                                                                      		thah that of Mad. Dell Orto in style it corresponds
                                                                      much more with the Servi, fig 1 No 108  (one of the windows
                                                                      left in the body of the church - observe the pilaster
                                                                      which once carried the removed and deeply to be regretted
                                                                      tracery) and is this chamfer and foll the origin of that
		Note the bit from Doge palace capitals in Istrian stone             employed afterwards so properly in the domestic Gothic.
used constantly for pubbricke, for common work.                       The beautiful palace near Arsenal of which the shafts with
                                                                      rich intermediate Byzantine birds are dagued. has over 
                                                                      its door the shield opposite - its back door at least
		The other stone found by Mr Brown for me the old                    leading into "Cal[,]le[l] Grandibe" doubtless the arms of
Sculptor colle pietra di Porto chieto and guilto in Istria            the Grandiben family (heaps of money) who are mentioned 
and called in Venice pietra Bandia.                                   in Mr Brown’s note to
                                                                                  House No 77  Grotesque of pilaster:  its effect is not that
                                                                      Grotesque	intended by sculptor - the whites should all be darker
                                                                      and it would then be much poorer, but the scales of it are
                                                                      very clever:  the man must have been a kind of Agassiez,
                                                                      and the fire at the gill radiates like La Scala crests and
                                                                      Titian’s wing.  Note, this gill goes into a hollow
                                                                      in the stone, the head being for the rest, - cut flat by
                                                                      incisions into the square base of the spiral chamfer.

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