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	The other openleafwork capital is on the north side.                 			TORCELLO  STA FOSCA  DUOMO
                                                                      	altar to east portico, showing the abacus which is
	And with this fig 3 compare fig 4 No 131 which is the                plainer in the pillar, but cu[i]t into leaves on the wall
base of one of the pillars of the screen of the choir                 fig 2.
No 131 now cut up, its fig 4 is 2 on plate 4 B.                       Fig 3 is the base of the same pillar (carefully drawn)
All the bases on No 131 are carefully drawn:  to the same             and of another its companion to the front, having a singul
scale:  showing how the members of the bases, the same in             lar effect from their beinb so depressed, as to look
nature and number are infinitely varied in  relat[y]ion               like octagonal rings receiving the shaft   On no 131
and proportion.  No 1 is especially curious in effect owing           are a series of three examples of the bases of the
to itsenormous saucer like flat upper fillet.  The Torcello           great shafts in the interior;  and most of those in
columns may indeed be generally noted for their peculiar              exterior porch of Sta Fosca have the same kind of
look of being put in saucers.                                         clumsy substitute for a roll:  and none, that I saw,
The circular rolls at the base of the capitals, are                   had any leaves at the angles:
in one or two cases absent;  in others, treated as classi-                 Now it seems to me very strange that the capitals
cal wreaths of leaves                                                 should be so elaborate, as those of the interior, while
and in one, fig 7 No 130 two serpents forming braids                  yet no leaves are set to the bases:  though they o[c]cur
are chasing each otehr round;  This is the shaft seen                 blocked out at St Ambrozio’s Milan.
in my day of the interior.  Its little six leaved                          I ought to have noted that the most northern column o
vines are merely one of the forms into which the sweeping             the small shed or atrium before the duomo is beautifully
mass cut first as for acanthus leaf, is divided, the                  set with erect vine leaves:  and gas round its abacus
section of this shaft would be the same as of that                    the heart shaped wreath fig 4 which again occurs to
on No 132, and there are about four vines to each side,               characteristically on the Palazzo Loredan.
fig 8 is one vine leaf larger;  The upper sweeps of the               and the two central pilasters of that atrkum have as
leaves are much less elaborate  Note The vine leaves ar[t]e           small transition at section fig 5.
thick and attached to the bell, their stems detached.                 The main (west?) door of the church is a plain square
I need hardly[u] note that the forked leaf is almost constant         of two enriched pilaster jambs:  and a plinth laid over
at Torcello in the inner division.

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