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[M.107L]                                                              [M.107]	Ducal Palace. Campo San Zaccaria	107
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                                                                      		Opposite 1 is the arrangement of the tracery, spiral shafts
                                                                      		and abac. head:  The capital a fine group of banded
                                                                      		leaves: well rooted however so as to form a kind
                                                                      		of independent capital to the roll a;  the capital
                                                                      		section at 2 all below b being confined to the
                                                                      		spiral shaft:  the leaves falling to the jamb at once
                                                                      		on the rest of the bell.  Same small dogteeth
                                                                      		and all worked in the Lucchese marble.
                                                                      Gothic of San Zaccaria p 19 Door book. additional notes
                                                                      		This door I have daguerreotyped:  it has one section for
                                                                      		the square door, a b (D book) another for the arch
                                                                      		above b c - c being on the field of the basrelief
                                                                      		and the tracery, so marked, between the two joints
                                                                      		surrounding and belonging to it, the proper arch
                                                                      		section is b c2  In both sections the dotted
                                                                      		line represents that of the flowers lapping over
                                                                      		until they meet the roll.  These leaves are all late -
                                                                      		ill cut & feeling less:  they are the curled leaf and
                                                                      		leaf with six stamened rose alternately, which we
                                                                      		find on the small rich palace, and on the Pesaro at
                                                                      		St Benedetto, but these are less vigorous: softer
                                                                      		and less undercut - far less picturesque without
                                                                      		being more refined or more pure.  On the moulding of

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