[No.37] [RF MS 76] [part]


COP

The third story
is an exquisite
arcade of the
section fig 8
With dentils as
in Fondaco di
Turchi - instead
of roll: the dentils
run into one upon
the abacus and
capitals exquisitely
cut. In fact each
story - as this house rises
is better cut than that
below				4

[drawing] p						[diagram] 8	a   b

Fig 2 The roll in fig 4 is
broken off at p: and is rudely
supplied by a wooden imitation
a foot and a half too long, flattening
the whole arch: This falls on the head of a
	       has been
pilaster which  is inserted between two capitals like those of
fig 2. exactly  ^ as in the Fondaco di Turchi: but the left
hand capital is broken away and filled with bricks - and
only the pilaster & right hand capital remain. Now the marble
between the rolls of the arcade as far as p. is flat and plain (masonry
as shown in fig 4) but from the shafts on which the wooden
continuation of p. falls, springs an arch as in fig 2. of which
fig 2 shows the right hand side - with the left hand side of
the next: and the curious pilaster heads bound together that carry them
 - There are only two of these decorated arches: the second falling
	single       fig 3
on a pilaster shaft	whose moulding, all but the two fillets
5. 6. & 7. Bases of shafts fig 2 the triangular leaf steep
down and sharp. Section of archivolt of 2 or 4.   9. Cornice
above 2 & 4 in its true position - all along the house.
The rolls a  and  b. fig 8. are in red marble the rest
in white

						No 37. Palace opposite post office (p 62)

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