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NO 60. HOUSE IN CROTE DEL REMER
No 60 Fig 1. Relations of height, width of plinth
and general proportion between doors and windows of old
house near Rialto.
Fig 2. Masonry of one of the windows. A a b c d
are the points of the upper dentil, those of the facing
are plain enough; and of the lower dentil, whose curves
are exquisitely finished. It is strange that the upper
point c. leaves just one dentil above it off the rt line;
probably easier to curve it from the straight piece than
to reverse the curve below. Fig 3. Section a b fig 1.
Fig 4. sect of capital, but vid No 61: and p 122
This house - one of the most neglected - is also one of
the loveliest in Venice. The sun, in winter, touches only
the angle of the court into the depth of which it is with-
drawn: and when the light is warm on the fondaco de Tichur-
chi, the lever of the right still hang upon the eagle
wings of its capitals; and the heavy moi[ii]ture makes its
broken stair slippery and cold; and brings out into
continual green and wild herbage of its crannies;
There is deeper green than theirs in the Verd antique,
precious, and veined with pure white, which surrounds its
peaked windows as if with a moat of the Venetian sea -
the golden brown of their dentils - and the rich dark
movement of the arch bind
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