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                                                                                     No 61.  HOUSE IN CORTE DEL REMER
                                                                      	the , may set with a Titian like warmth and mystery
	Campiello del Remer is the real name                                 beside those bands of green - one prism of pure white
                                                                      only shines in the point of one of these arches; but
                                                                      all in the last stage of habitable ruin;  the wind
                                                                      whistles through the rotten door which protects the
                                                                      recess to the Atrium, without flowers and broken flower
                                                                      pots lie in heaps about the landing - and the rain from
                                                                      the granite dripstone soaks into the miud and sand a
                                                                      which has choked its pavement.
                                                                      The carvings of the great arch fig 1 on the richest
                                                                      I have yet seen on any arch of the kind, covering
                                                                      both architrave and soffit Fig 1 No 61 is a careful
                                                                      section;  the cornice or dripstone of granite its ornament
                                                                      seen beside it and note the stone is edged by the
                                                                      which is in contact with the cement;  Then the facing slabs
                                                                      of white marble, cut in to animals   and then soffit slabs
                                                                      of which the edge is curiously archaic; being neither a
                                                                      roll nor a square.  Perhaps the most curious thing con-
                                                                      nected with the arch is that while in both ornaments the
                                                                      	  animals seem throughout to be kept within the intaglio
                                                                      limit, yet, in the soffit wreath, two little beasts, one
                                                                      on each side, who fill an angle of the leafage, have
                                                                      one a paw, the other a claw, extended over the flattened r
                                                                      roll at the angle: drawn upon it

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