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                                                                      		ARCH MADONNA  S M MATER DOMINI  (ROMO DELLA CHEISA)
                                                                      		circle containing Foscari arms.  (The opposite one had a
                                                                      plain dentil) very interesting, showing perhaps the
                                                                      real origin by a series of dentils interposed between
                                                                      drops of ornament at p 14, and on brick doors otherwise
                                                                      connected with true chap of Andrea Dandolo.  Observe 19
                                                                      diamonds in the circle.
                                                                      Fig 4  the finial.  The arch is seen on both sides, (and
                                                                      if it be of Foscari turn certainly the Madonna is nearly
                                                                      as stiff as anything on Ducal palace.  The flower border
                                                                      (note in sec 2 the moulding is plain only flowers in b)
                                                                      is also rude - but much injured by time;  the rose and
                                                                      its stem is then as usual, but very short stemmed)
                                                                      - not exactly same on both sides;  for the two circles
                                                                      instead of being in dentils are in rolls:  and one instead
                                                                      of the quartered lion has two plain roses of fig 5 pattern
                                                                      		How general the principle of truncating 4 foils and keep-
                                                                      ing trefoils sharp, of course because the point of a 4 foil
                                                                      is necessarily too sharp to be either strong or agreeable
                                                                      P 33 G. book.	Fig 1.  is shaft head of third story of a house in
                                                                      the Romo della Chiesa - just behind S. M. Mater Domini
                                                                      This house, with others, may be named as an example of
                                                                      very early pure 5th, in third story, on this
                                                                      

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