[PB.7L]                                                               [PB.7]							7
                                                                      
				Casa Vitturi                                                      	House . No 54.
			named in Sansovino                                                 
					p 385.                                                           In Campo Sta Maria Formosa - vide house book
[diagram]                                                               Opposite is this most rare section, carefully
                                                                        drawn real size of the 3rd order windows of
[upside down]                                                           third story: They are pure third: well
                                                                        stilted: and with circles and a cross between
This to back of                                                       them in centre: (Daguerreotyped capitals) the
abacus about                                                            shallow dentil remarkable as well as the
a foot deep                                                             incipient cavetto: and observe - most curious
                                                                        that . the capital having been adapted from
                                                                       other buildings, and one being wider than another,
                                                                      the interval between the mouldings is enlarged from
                                                                      one inch to 2 inches and finally to four inches. to
                                                                          fit them !  For further details vid. here p.10
                                                                      
                                                                      [diagram]
                                                                      
                                                                      [diagram]		[landscape orientation]
                                                                      
                                                                      	Section of the
                                                                      capital most undercut
                                                                      the furthest off in the
                                                                      daguerreotype
                                                                      The separate part should
                                                                      probably be of equal thickness
                                                                      all down. The ink line
                                                                      detached inside is wrong.
                                                                      I believe the pils, the
                                                                      archivolt masonries, and the
                                                                      shaft bases (mouldings &
                                                                      cylinders both) are
                                                                      later than the shafts,
                                                                      of which the central one
                                                                      is of Verona marble
                                                                      The Byzantine capitals
                                                                      are most certainly
                                                                      adapted from some
                                                                      earlier building.

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