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                                                                      No 122  123.  DUCAL PALACE  SAN STEFANO
                                                                      	sweet and full of animation.  The chiselling of the head
                                                                      of Noah is as hard as it is elaborate;  every vein and
                                                                      wrinkle being sharpened and multiplied to give the Proutish
                                                                      ornament of surface;  and the leaves exquisitely arranged
                                                                      and round ribbed though they be, are stiff in their lobes
                                                                      and simple in plan:  Above the capital heads - though
                                                                      not of children - are heavy smooth - staring, dolls heads
                                                                      without one ray of intelligence, or wrinkle of delicate
                                                                      work, and the angel at the angle has the smooth
                                                                      serene, thoroughly cut features and quiet large eye
                                                                      of the late Gothic - not Bon exactly - more Porta San Stef-
                                                                      fano time - and still decidedly fine - while the leaves
                                                                      beneath it are, except where a piece has been broken off
                                                                      over the canal, the best preserved in the palace, and
                                                                      perhaps the most lovely, having all the quaintness of
                                                                      the earliest, plan, with the fluency and grace of later
                                                                      work, and no curled lobes nor abacus.
                                                                      Church of San Sefano  p 66  Gothic book.
                                                                      	Fig 1.  Bell of one of the leaf capitals of interior, with
                                                                      measures
	No 122. shows the general effect of one of the leaf                  	Fig 2.  Plan of the capital head under abacus;  it is a
capitals;  observe the circle of the bell is quite                    pure circle as opposite, at A. and fig 2 is for measures
pure;  it only looks indented because the shadow falls                of interval of circle and side of lead.  Fig 3, p 66 1
down upon it at the angles, its under shade should be true            Archivolt on abacus.
The mode in[s] which the capital is first cut will be
understood from B. above.  A pure fell -not so
concave as this, with equal edge all round is put under
this abacus, I have put it upside down for clearness,
and the angles are occupied as in the bases[,], by horizontal
	triangles, the edges are then foiled as seen in No 123, wh
	which is one of the triangular leaf extremities

		                         Continued at p 176.

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