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                                                                      			    No 114  MURANO DUOMO  HOUSE AT  MURANO
                                                                      		as I once thought, deduce it entirely from the chipped
                                                                      alab:  Figs 2m, 3 Section and profile of one of the
                                                                      capitals of lower story of apse   There are however more
		Two or three of the capitals are in red marble.                     graceful ones than this:  In 2 the concave line is the
                                                                      bell and convex flower work - at the angle, at the side
                                                                      it would be as at 5, or perhaps more correctly 6.
                                                                      Of course no undercutting:  4 is leaf a of capital
                                                                      more accurate.  Note these caps are browned or dis-
                                                                      coloured down to their point - though of marble.  The
                                                                      shafts are the purest white Fig 1 is their base as  far
                                                                      as the wear admits of its outline being felt.  It has no
                                                                      angle leaves:  the mouldings are circular down to p, and
                                                                      stand on the plain square plinth below.
                                                                      House at Murano p 53 1 Goth book.  Tracery of larger right hand window:
                                                                      A tracery bar and cusps.  B. archivolt the rest explains
                                                                      itself only note the archa[i]ic and ugly setting of cusp:
                                                                      and the entire and long coincidence of foils with smaller
                                                                      roll.  The cavetto in tracery bar should perhaps be a
                                                                      little deeper:  and the cusp a little wider, to give
                                                                      thickness to the bar:  The circle in middle of 4 foil
                                                                      carries a shield it projects a little above the cusps, be-[i]
                                                                      ing held as opposite fig 1.
                                                                      How different the ungraceful cusp pinned on to the curve
                                                                      as it were, from the scymitar one at page 48 1.
                                                                      No 114.    gives the windows looking to the garden, at the back of this
                                                                      same

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