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		Observe in case I forget to examine it, a house with                			  PIAZZETTA DE LEONI  HOUSE IN.  ARCH  MADONNA
five or six most beautiful 4th with a2 sec. Beside the                		Three windows:  two at;  on the side next the bridge of
moat of the Arsenal behind the Sava.                                  sighs forming the corner of the house.  These are sketched
                                                                      in general proportion p 30 1 G book fig 1  only the upper
                                                                      lines of base in shafts are wrong, all should be carried
                                                                      across at leastpages
                                                                      On page 30 the head of the window:  capitals and bases
                                                                      are given and see[c] of plinth below.  Observe the Pure Byzan-
                                                                      tine type of capital merely leaved:  and the points of
                                                                      leaves gracefully holding the lower fillet of abacus
                                                                      while the pil. is simply transitional Ap:  The shaft
                                                                      heads as usual of one block:    cut through into deep shade
                                                                      below the roll.  The leaves have one central rib:  and as
                                                                      shown at fig 2 have the curling of the inter-lobe - or
                                                                      groin developed - but not the curled top.  The Archivolt
                                                                      sec. is most rare, fig 3.
                                                                      The other window is the same, but with Ap pils simply
                                                                      Madonna.	over Archway at Ponte.
                                                                      		On p 31 side of arch with junction of dentils, highly
                                                                      curious:  pm31 1 a - b the sections across a, b with
                                                                      cusp, perhaps cusp should be a little wider of course
                                                                      in looking up, the back of the moulding b is not seen
                                                                      on p 31 but only the flat space at junction of dentils
                                                                      where the two fillets run into a little creek of level
                                                                      field.  Fig 3 the ornament round left hand

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