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CA D’ORO TRACERIES FIRST STORY
to show the arrangement of the dentils: b above c below
the capital: the two on the left, with their intermediate
ornament fo right round the whole window, as a square
border, through curiously involved; they are seen in
the section E. of No 17 another dental appears in the
section b here; this goes round the ogee arch, and is
the dentil marked d c in section A of No 17 while
a b there is the large dentil e f of section E: The
square line round section a is the abacus head: which
has a slight excess over the pilasters as seen in the
sections b c of No 23.
The smaller window is executed with precisely the same
tracery as the others: onlythe cusps, ihstead of being
merely filleted, are cut clear through and left as open
bands; the same bands join the head in the centre of the
4 foil like notre dame, but the head is most rudely cut;
The second roll which forms the central tracery bars
is carried through the figure A. opposite melting truly
into bars into itself at the junctions. The stonework is
not cut open either in the spaces a or b. The other
drawing on No 23 is of course the true contour.
Gothic schools of Venice.
Beginning with pure Byzantine domestic; we have the
stilted round arch: and St Marks flanking arches, all alik
ecclesiastical and civil. with basket capitals. Then
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