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                                                                      	    CA  LORADAN   CA FARSETTI
                                                                      	instructive to the architect than the rich and perfect effc[t]
                                                                      of the touches of shade on these  apitals:  and their
                                                                      delicious value and point seen from below:  though
                                                                      above, they have not even the usual Byzantine artifice of
                                                                      undercutting far less the precise lines and delicate
                                                                      chiselling of the Fondaco de Turchi.  They are every
                                                                      way blunt and miserable in cutting but the design so
                                                                      good and the point of  shadh -so set - witness the wreath
                                                                      at p 50 when the stems are carefully rounded and deep cut
                                                                      down - though not under - and where the use of the
                                                                      (ivy?) leaf is peculiarly dextrous:  the pattern of leaf
                                                                      is varied on every one of the shafts that have ut, but is
                                                                      the same in style.
                                                                      The Gothic work is later:  and as far as I could see, very
                                                                      good;  I think middle of 14th century, or perhaps later
                                                                      the features of the Venice well cut and refined.
                                                                      In fig 1 the section of capital gives the leaves of the
                                                                      rude imitative Corinthian one, Note the strange shape of
                                                                      the bell like St mark’s inside.
                                                                      	Palazzo Fasetti. p 52 Housebook 2.  On left hand page elevation of the
                                                                      extremity next Rialto of lower ground story, remarkable
                                                                      for the rich development of thepanel arach.
                                                                        In order to have the elevation correctly complete another
                                                                      small round arch, and add moulding as far as to x on the
                                                                      left.  Above x in

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