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                                                                      				No 15 - 16.   CHURCH OF FRARI  Ca’ d’Oro
                                                                      		The gables are sadly defaced:  Their internal foliation
                                                                      has been something as opposite.  The lines of the arch
                                                                      mouldings look like simple         The base of the
                                                                      shafts confused by brick and tile work - the shafts of
                                                                      green marble.  The cable moulding in the cornice below
                                                                      (of bricks all but the string and brackets; left white)
                                                                      is curious from its radiation;  it is as I have drawn it
                                                                      and as close in the coil:  but there should be a space
                                                                      between it and the diamonds as opposite.  The arches below
                                                                      run up, with the cornice, all along the façade, exactly
                                                                      as at the San G and P only here, there is a piece of
                                                                      brickwork of an Arabesque line above - as so often seen
                                                                      in Canaletto;  it is seen in perspective to the top,
                                                                      with two bits of the shafts of the central and crowning
                                                                      niche in my drawing.  The arches of the cornice and their
                                                                      bracket are drawn at a:  the circular sunk holes of brick
                                                                      each have a different filing;  5 more are given above
                                                                      No 16 Fig 2 is not enough explained in drawing:  The
                                                                      fillet round the arch being produced by a slight hollow
                                                                      seen in the section at A. which point is the A2 of the
                                                                      drawn arch, and, B is B2  The leaves rise boldly out of
                                                                      this depression.
                                                                      		No 17 fig 1  Rude drawing of the tracery of the two
                                                                      larger windows on the wide, or Rialto side of the first
                                                                      story of ca d’Oro.  The tracery was drawn from the inner-
                                                                      most window, next central arcade;  looking from within
                                                                      so as to get as

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