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                                                                                                       CO PORTA DI FERRO  ACADEMIA GATE
                                                                      Case Porta di  FERRO CONT[E]ARINI:  Certainly the most graceful 14th
                                                                      century work I have found externally in Venice:  at p 63
                                                                      Gothic book one of the arches of its balustrade, real size
                                                                      with one of the intermediate leafage groups, each foil
                                                                      of the spiral successively laid over the other some half
                                                                      an inch deep and beautifully modilated:  Compare with the
                                                                      central boss, that of the great roses of the flower
                                                                      plinth of the arch of Agnes Venier, noted at p 17.
                                                                      at page 63 1 a - b and a 2 b2 real size, is the
                                                                      verti[c]cal section and cd the horizontal section of the
                                                                      balustrade through its cusps c c2 dd 2 being the cusp
                                                                      projection I found it impossible in the drawing to
                                                                      show the grace and suddenness of the depression of the main
                                                                      leaf lobe to its point.  The section along its central
                                                                      depression from x to y on p 63 would be as opposite fig 1.
                                                                               Bas reliefs in front of Academy delle belle arti.  There
                                                                      are three  now in the middle higher than the rest,
                                                                      over the door way:  under the canopy of which a side of
                                                                      the top is[f] given, at fig 1 p p 72 1 Gothic book.  The
                                                                      small figure in the ridge of the gable of course much fore-
                                                                      shortened in drawing is highly cutious Under it is a 
                                                                      Madonna with fo ying angels on each side beautifully
                                                                      quaint and bold in placing and cutting, and exceedingly
                                                                       like the two on each side of the

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