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                                                                      	      No 47.     CA GIUSTINIANI
                                                                      	in fig F. which is a perspective sketch of head of window,
                                                                      showing the 4 foil  G perspective sketch of lower arches
                                                                      of tracery with their curious finials:  showing the plain
                                                                      filleted not trefoiled cusp and use of section B .
                                                                      Observe in a the flattened semicircle going round
                                                                      tracery as at Ca d’Oro, and in G. the strange pilaster
                                                                      head; or rather half shaft head;  (there are the first
                                                                      half shafts I have met with) whose leafage is florid
                                                                      in feeling;  but bluntly and coldly cut, and the head
                                                                      vilely;  the base of this ½ shaft (also that of the whole
                                                                      central arcade) is seen below:  I suspect restoration.
                                                                      Traceries  Fig 2.  Traceries of central arcade:  of third or principal
                                                                      story:  The sections A and B at arch head and through cusp
                                                                      of the lower arch, C, were drawn with great care:  singu-
                                                                      lar for both their flat wide, half labelled cavette and
                                                                      their deep half le[v]velled roll.  Exactly the reverse, as we shall see presently, of the Pisani C. cusp of main arch:
                                                                      how curiously different from Danieli’s:  in its parallelism
                                                                      for so long a line;  though the filletleft is not above a
                                                                      ¼ of an inch deep;  too think both in the drawing and
                                                                      section, and in the 4 foil above, D it is not left;
                                                                      The filleting of the cusp excessively shallow, almost a
                                                                      line   It is strange that one cusp should be

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